[pca] patch dependency error

Thu Oct 14 01:52:43 CEST 2010

I'm not sure if this is an error or not but I can at least describe
the situation.

On a site where a Sun server was recently placed under contract and
it is quite old and had been left unserviced for years. Such is the
nature of Solaris, it just keeps running.  :-)

In any case the kernel rev on this machine was 118822-25 and pca says
there have been a few revs since then :

# grep -i kern patch_report
118833 -- < 36 RS- 999 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
120011 -- < 14 RS- 999 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
127127 -- < 11 RS- 901 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
137137 -- < 09 RS- 702 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
139555 -- < 08 RS- 524 SunOS 5.10: Kernel Patch
140163 -- < 01 --- 516 SunOS 5.10: /kernel/sys/sparcv9/semsys patch
141444 -- < 09 RS- 365 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
142909 -- < 17 RS-  36 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
144488 -- < 01 ---   2 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch

I decided I would take a very safe piecewise approach here and apply the
patches in order with a reboot for each kernel patch. Slow, but safe.

pca says that the first set of patches to aplly up until the first kernel
patch were these :

Using /root/patchdiag.xref from Oct/12/10
Host: global (SunOS 5.10/Generic_118822-25/sparc/sun4u)
List: missing (276/155282)

Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
------ -- - -- --- ---
-------------------------------------------------------
119254 28 < 76 RS-  44 SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
118367 02 < 04 --- 999 SunOS 5.10: csh Patch
118676 01 < 03 --- 999 SunOS 5.10: patch for Solaris make and sccs utilities
118683 01 < 06 ---  47 SunOS 5.10: Patch for profiling libraries and
assembler
118777 03 < 17 RS-  82 SunOS 5.10: Sun GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 driver patch
118918 09 < 24 RS- 999 SunOS 5.10: Solaris Crypto Framework patch
138217 -- < 01 R-- 695 SunOS 5.10: svccfg & svcprop patch
119578 10 < 30 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: FMA Patch
118833 -- < 36 RS- 999 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch

I applied 119254-76 manually as required.

Then I applied the following :

# patchadd -M /opt/patch 118367-04 118676-03 118683-06 118777-17 \
> 118918-24 138217-01 119578-30

Then this was followed by :

# patchadd -M /opt/patch 118833-36
Validating patches...

Loading patches installed on the system...

Done!

Loading patches requested to install.

.
.
.

reboot

This worked fine.

Then I went looking for the next batch of patches to apply up until a
kernel patch was required :

118981 01 < 03 --- 999 SunOS 5.10: Sun Quad FastEthernet qfe driver
119059 09 < 56 RS-  48 X11 6.6.2: Xsun patch
119081 20 < 25 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: CD-ROM Install Boot Image Patch
119130 14 < 33 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: Sun Fibre Channel Device Drivers
119213 -- < 25 RS-   2 NSS_NSPR_JSS 3.12.8: NSPR 4.8.6 / NSS 3.12.8 / JSS
4.3.2
124628 -- < 13 RS-  58 SunOS 5.10: CD-ROM Install Boot Image Patch
119252 08 < 30 RS-  58 SunOS 5.10: System Administration Applications Patch
121734 -- < 13 ---  68 SunOS 5.10: patch to support addition of new UTF-8
locales
140860 -- < 02 RS-   7 SunOS 5.10: su patch
140899 -- < 01 R-- 525 SunOS 5.10: [ir].manifest patch
120272 -- < 28 RS- 142 SunOS 5.10: SMA patch
122640 -- < 05 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: zfs genesis patch
126897 -- < 02 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: Fault Manager Patch
127755 -- < 01 R-- 902 SunOS 5.10: Fault Manager patch
125503 -- < 02 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: package-move-of-IP-objects patch
125547 -- < 02 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: zoneadm indirect dependency patch
140796 -- < 01 R-- 525 SunOS 5.10: umountall patch
120011 -- < 14 RS- 999 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch

I then decided to apply all of those patches with the exception of the
kernel patch 120011-14 and I saw this :

The following requested patches will not be installed because
at least one required patch is not installed on this system.

           0 For patch 121734-13, required patch 119278-13 does not exist.
           0 For patch 121734-13, required patch 124393-03 does not exist.

Approved patches will be installed in this order:

118981-03 119059-56 119081-25 119130-33 119213-25 140860-02 140899-01
122640-05
126897-02 125547-02 140796-01 124628-13 120272-28 127755-01 119252-30
125503-02

So a few patch dependecies seemed to be missing.

When I eventually tried to apply kernel patch 120011-14 I see this :

           0 For patch 120011-14, required patch 125547-01 does not exist.

I went looking for 125547-01 and then fell on this :

Approved patches will be installed in this order:

125547-02

Checking installed patches...
Executing prepatch script...

Patch 122660-10 needs to be installed before this patch can be
successfully installed on this system.

Please install 122660-10 and then run patchadd again for this patch.
The prepatch script exited with return code 1.

Patchadd is terminating.

Thus I needed 122660-10 which reported this :

    0 For patch 122660-10, required patch 124204-01 does not exist.

I was now down the rabbit hole and I dug out thus :

[1] -----------------------------------------------------
Patch 124204-04 has been successfully installed.
See /var/sadm/patch/124204-04/log for details

Patch packages installed:
  SUNWfmd
  SUNWzfskr
  SUNWzfsr
  SUNWzfsu

[2] -----------------------------------------------------
Patch 122660-10 has been successfully installed.
See /var/sadm/patch/122660-10/log for details

Patch packages installed:
  SUNWcsr
  SUNWcsu
  SUNWzoneu

[3] -----------------------------------------------------
Patch 125547-02 has been successfully installed.
See /var/sadm/patch/125547-02/log for details

Patch packages installed:
  SUNWcsr

[4] -----------------------------------------------------
finally ...

# patchadd 120011-14
Validating patches...

Loading patches installed on the system...

Done!

Loading patches requested to install.

.
.
.

Approved patches will be installed in this order:

120011-14

Checking installed patches...
Executing prepatch script...
Installing patch packages...
WARNING: fctl: ULP SunFC FCIP v20070116-1.47 version mismatch; please
upgrade SunFC FCIP v20070116-1.47
WARNING: fctl: ULP FCSM version mismatch; please upgrade FCSM

Patch 120011-14 has been successfully installed.
See /var/run/.patchSafeMode/root/var/sadm/patch/120011-14/log for details

Patch packages installed:
  SUNWatfsu
  SUNWauda
  SUNWbtool
  SUNWcakr
  SUNWcar
  SUNWckr
  SUNWcnetr
  SUNWcsd
  SUNWcsl
  SUNWcslr
  SUNWcsr
  SUNWcsu
  SUNWdoc
  SUNWdtrc
  SUNWdtrp
  SUNWerid
  SUNWesu
  SUNWfmd
  SUNWib
  SUNWintgige
  SUNWipfr
  SUNWipfu
  SUNWkey
  SUNWkrbu
  SUNWkvm
  SUNWlibsasl
  SUNWlldap
  SUNWmdb
  SUNWmdr
  SUNWmdu
  SUNWnfsckr
  SUNWnfscu
  SUNWnfssu
  SUNWnisu
  SUNWopenssl-libraries
  SUNWperl584core
  SUNWperl584usr
  SUNWpiclu
  SUNWpool
  SUNWpoolr
  SUNWrcmdc
  SUNWroute
  SUNWses
  SUNWsmapi
  SUNWssad
  SUNWtavor
  SUNWtecla
  SUNWtoo
  SUNWudapltr
  SUNWudapltu
  SUNWwbsup
  SUNWxcu4
  SUNWxge
  SUNWzfskr
  SUNWzfsr
  SUNWzfsu
  SUNWzoner
  SUNWzoneu

#

time for a reboot.

Okay, so it looks like a few patch dependecies are missing in the patch
order. Is there faulty data in the patchdiag.xref perhaps or simply the
patch dependecy data is missing entirely?

-- 
Dennis