[pca] [[slightly] off-topic Warning]: Solaris 10 SPARC patch 144500-19 and EMC PowerPath

[Wickline, Bob (N-STERLING COMPUTERS CORPORATION)]

This may be a stupid question but wouldn't something like this warrant
pulling/recalling the patch???

 

 

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On Behalf Of Don O'Malley
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:31 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Cc: loris.serena at bnymellon.com; sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [pca] [[slightly] off-topic Warning]: Solaris 10
SPARC patch 144500-19 and EMC PowerPath

 

Hi Loris/All,

Firstly, apologies that you found this out the hard way. I am in the process
of getting a README note added to this KU to warn customers of the issue.

This is a late breaking issue that we are currently investigating in
partnership with EMC.
The cause of this issue is that EMC PowerPath is using private interfaces in
Solaris, which Oracle have changed in the latest KU deliverables. While it
is not strictly an Oracle problem, we are doing everything we can to find a
good solution for our customers that use EMC PowerPath.

I will keep the PCA alias in the loop as I know more. Please bear with us.

Best,
-Don


On 18/08/11 09:50, loris.serena at bnymellon.com wrote: 

Just FYI, 

Installing kernel patch 144500-19 on a system with PowerPath will throw the
box in a CPU panic boot loop. 
(learned this the hard way) 

 <https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9792685>
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9792685 

Regards, 

Loris 

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