[pca] Patch 138261-02 problems..

[Don O'Malley]

Hi Andy,

Does backing off patch 138261-02 fix the problem?

Also, can you provide a case#, so I can follow this up please?

Thanks!
-Don


Glenn Satchell wrote:
> On 06/18/10 18:09, Andy Fiddaman wrote:
>>
>> Since installing 138261-02 here I'm seeing problems which cause cron to
>> stall.. Whenever logadm tries to rotate the cron log file, there 
>> seems to
>> be a deadlock between cron and logadm, and /var/cron/log attains the l
>> flag..
>>
>> # cd /var/cron
>> # ls
>> log    olog
>> # tail log
>> ^C
>> # ls -l
>> total 2570
>> -rw---l---   1 root     sys       531501 Jun 16 00:00 log
>> -rw-------   1 root     sys       528384 Jun 16 00:00 olog
>> # date
>> Wed Jun 16 08:08:23 GMT 2010
>>
>> You might want to skip that patch for the moment.. I've opened a case 
>> with
>> Sun but nothing back yet.
>>
>> A.
>>
> Hi Andy
>
> Interesting. I have that patch installed on a couple of systems and 
> have not seen this. The cron log files have rotated since the patch 
> was installed. I installed all available patches (not just recommended 
> or security).
>
> Please advise any further info you get from Sun/Oracle. This might be 
> one waiting to get me.
>