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

[Laurent Blume]

Hello Don,

Are they? There *were* unavailable this morning CEST (MOS asked for a  
password with no explanation), but they can be downloaded again now.

Laurent

Don O'Malley <don.omalley at oracle.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Quick update.
>
> Patches 147440-16, 147440-17, 147441-16 & 147441-17 are in the  
> process of being withdrawn from MOS.
>
> I will share the accompanying SunAlert for the issue as soon as I get it.
>
>
> On 05/24/12 18:46, Don O'Malley wrote:
>> 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.
> This should read:
> 147440-15 (SPARC) and 147441-15 (x86) are the last known good revisions.
>
> (Thanks Thomas!)
>
> Best,
> -Don
>
>>  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 we can determine whether they need to be withdrawn permanently.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
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> <http://www.oracle.com/>
>> *Don O'Malley*
>> Manager, Software Maintenance Engineering
>> Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware
>> Block C, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland
>> Phone: +353 1 8033883
>> Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test_ww_grp at oracle.com  
>> <mailto:rpe_patch_system_test_ww_grp at oracle.com>
>
> -- 
> <http://www.oracle.com/>
> *Don O'Malley*
> Manager, Software Maintenance Engineering
> Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware
> Block C, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland
> Phone: +353 1 8033883
> Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test_ww_grp at oracle.com  
> <mailto:rpe_patch_system_test_ww_grp at oracle.com>