[pca] Kernel Patch 142909-17

[Glenn Satchell]

patchadd spawns many sub-processes, so I get the PID of the pca process, 
then run ptree frequently

ptree 12345

and look to see if the lowest level processes keep changing.

% ptree 19993
459   /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
   19911 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
     19912 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
       19922 -zsh
         19984 /usr/bin/zsh -l
           19993 perl -x -w /usr/local/bin/pca -i 143592
             20023 sh -c /usr/sbin/patchadd 
/tmp/pca.128679374919993/143592-05
               20024 /usr/sbin/patchadd /tmp/pca.128679374919993/143592-05
                 20026 /bin/ksh -hp /usr/lib/patch/patchadd -M 
/tmp/pca.12867937
                   20108 pkgadd -O patchPkgInstall -O nozones -O 
enable-hollow-p
                     20111 /usr/sadm/install/bin/pkginstall -O 
patchPkgInstall -
                       20112 /sbin/sh 
/tmp/pca.128679374919993/143592-05/SUNWipf
                         20113 cut -d- -f1

regards,
-glenn

On 10/10/10 09:41, Diana Orrick wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions everyone, will supply more info when time
> allows.
> Still working on the cluster...
>
> On 10/9/2010 6:18 PM, Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>>
>> You might want to compare the times it took for other patches so that
>> you know if it will take longer that 13*11*x minutes whet x is some
>> random number which it seems to take for patching zones. If the server
>> is ok to run for more time let it run. It took my server 7 hours to
>> patch 200 patches on a server with 3 zones. Sine you have 13 zones it
>> might take longer.
>> -GGR
>>
>>> On Oct 9, 2010 12:17 PM, "Martin Paul" <martin at par.univie.ac.at
>>> <mailto:martin at par.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Diana Orrick schrieb:
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Any suggestions on how to determine if the patching is progressing
>>> at all?
>>>
>>> I guess you could use "truss -f -p <PID>" on the PID of the
>>> "patchadd" process to see what's going on.
>>>
>>> If you have to interrupt the patch installation process, the only
>>> "good" thing is that PCA is using plain patchadd for the patch
>>> install, so there's no extra uncertainty added by the fact that you
>>> are using PCA. On the other hand I don't have much practical
>>> experience about how "patchadd" reacts to Ctrl-C. I think that it
>>> should be pretty save to remove the partly installed patch with
>>> "patchrm" afterwards without causing any ill effects.
>>>
>>> Martin.
>>>
>>>
>