[pca] Kernel Patch 142909-17

[Diana Orrick]

If anyone is watching the list, have you seen/heard of this 'problem'?

I am currently attempting to use PCA to patch a clustered Sun 10
system of 2 nodes. The cluster has 13 non-global zones. Have used PCA
for some time now and have been very happy with the tool.

Following recommended (and always previously successful) procedures,
I have placed all zones on one node and patched the other node (w/o zones).

Installation of 142909-17 did take a while (11 minutes) but the process
moved on as always and the patching was successful on the node with no 
zones.

On the node with the zones, followed usual procedure and the process
seems to have halted at the kernel patch 142909-17 and has not progressed.
Ordinarily the global zone would be patched and then it goes through 
listing
the non-global zones... It has not gotten past the global zone installation.
It's been almost 3 hours and I'm reluctant to stop/halt/Ctl-C the patching
process since this is a kernel patch.

System is up, nothing in /var/adm/messages... I've spot checked the 
updated files
listed in the patch doc on Oracle/Sun between the first patched node and 
the
current node and see some updates, but it's difficult to tell the order 
the files
are introduced/updated from the extensively long list of new files in 
this patch.

The processes listed related to PCA are still 'running' , another reason I'm
reluctant to halt/kill.

Has anyone seen this behavior with this patch in a similar system situation?
Any suggestions on how to determine if the patching is progressing at all?

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          Diana Mayer Orrick, System Administrator
  Information Technology Services, Florida State University
        Contact:   orrick at fsu.edu   --   (850) 645-8009
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