[pca] Heads-up on patches 147440-16, 147440-17, 147441-16, 147441-17

[Don O'Malley]

Hi,

A small number of customers have reported panics in recent days with 
Solaris 10 Kernel patches 147440/1 revs -16 and -17.

The issue appears to be triggered by heavy network stress and also 
appears to be have been caused by the fixfor CR 7054587. Investigations 
are ongoing. It's not yet clear how pervasive the issue is, or under 
what exact circumstances the issue occurs.

117440-15 (SPARC) and 117441-15 (x86) are the last known good 
revisions.  Affected customers should backoff the affected KU's revert 
to these revisions.

I've removed download capability of the affected Kernel patch revisions 
temporarily to avoid more customers being impacted until we can 
determine whether they need to be withdrawn permanently. You will see 
attempts to download these patches via pca failing as a result.

A Sun Alert is in the works and I'll provide an update tomorrow.

We'll also be respinning the Recommended Cluster to revert to rev-15.  
Customers should use the April Solaris 10 CPU instead in the interim.

This issue will be addressed in rev-19 by backing out the offending putback.

Best,
-Don


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*Don O'Malley*
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Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware
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