[pca] Patch 147440-25 issue

[Ben Taylor]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Culver, Michael <mrculver at aug.edu> wrote:
> Recently installed 147440-25 on a t5120 which rendered it unbootable.  After
> no help from Oracle on the matter I removed the patch and regained access to
> the system.  Oracle’s response is that because I am not patching with the
> patch cluster the patches are being installed in the wrong order.  Even if I
> ignored the history of 147400 I don’t believe that’s true.  I’ve been using
> PCA for years and haven’t had a problem till now.  Having said all that, is
> there any validity to the idea that the order of patch install may be a
> factor?

Are you running VxVM 6.0?  We ran into a problem several months ago
with VxVM 6.0
root mirrors and one of the kernel patches, that eventually caused the
systems not to boot.
We had to backout the kernel patch.

I was recently notified that the version of VxVM 6.0SP1 has been released which
should alleviate the incompatibility between the kernel patch and VxVM 6.0.

Ben