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Hi Bob,<br>
<br>
All patch 125555-11 will do is prevent customers with EMC PowerPath
installed from shooting themselves in the foot by installing patch
144500-19 (it will actually prevent installation of 144500-19 on
systems that have affected versions of EMC PowerPath installed).<br>
<br>
In addition, 125555-01 does not have similar logic for the Hitachi,
Falcon, Dynapath or CA products.<br>
<br>
Patch 125555-11 does not fix the issue.<br>
<br>
This is not something which can be fixed by Oracle. Instead it is up to
each ISV that has coded against private interfaces in Solaris to
produce a hotfix for the issue.<br>
In the case of EMC, the date I heard for a hotfix for EMC PowerPath was
the 7th October. To get further information you need to follow up with
the ISV in question.<br>
<br>
NOTE 9 of "Special Install Instructions" section of the README for
144500-19 is specifically related to this issue:<br>
<pre>NOTE 9: Currently released EMC PowerPath versions (as of August 18th 2011) are
incompatible with this patch. Do not install this patch on systems
running EMC PowerPath, until EMC provides a fix for this issue.
EMC is working on a fix to resolve this issue and have published
ETA emc275344 on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://powerlink.emc.com">https://powerlink.emc.com</a> which contains further
information.
To prevent this kernel patch from being installed on systems with
incompatible PowerPath versions, please first install the following
patch:
125555-11 (or greater) patch behavior patch
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<br>
HTH,<br>
-Don<br>
<br>
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Tate, Robert B wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">We are
running EMC PowerPath and also have Hitachi HDS on some of the servers
here. The Panic loop happened last week on the 17<sup>th</sup> so the
new patch wasn’t out yet. I will look at 125555-11 and make sure it is
applied before 144500-19 is attempted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thank you
Don<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Bob Tate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at">pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at">mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Don O'Malley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> EXTERNAL: Re: [pca] Can not exclude 144500-19!?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Robert,<br>
<br>
I'll leave the whitelist/blacklist stuff to Martin.<br>
<br>
I'm more interested in why you're ending up in the panic loop!<br>
<br>
Are you running EMC PowerPath?<br>
If so - check out <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1358671.1">
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1358671.1</a><br>
We have also seen similar nasty reactions to 144500-19 with the
following multipathing products:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Hitachi HDS<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Falconstor<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Dynapath<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">CA Access Control SeOS<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems like in all cases the problem occurs
when the multipathing product uses a private Solaris interface, which
patch 144500-19 changes.<br>
<br>
Bottom line is that patch 144500-19 is not compatible with the effected
products.<br>
To try prevent customers hitting the most prevalent of these issues,
which is EMC PowerPath, we have worked with EMC to construct logic
which will prevent patch 144500-19 from applying to susceptible systems.<br>
<br>
This logic is delivered in patch 125555-11 (released Monday 19th
September). This patch is now in the Recommended Patchset.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
-Don<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Tate, Robert B wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Installing this patch puts many of our systems
into endless reboots. I have used the following command line to try and
exclude this patch (and some others), but it still shows up in the
lists. I found a white list in the program which seems to override my
commands. Is this correct? How can I get around this? I cannot allow
this to be installed until this is fixed and can’t get pca to not
install it.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To get a listing, this is what I use:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/tools/adm/SunOS/bin/pca -y
-X/usr/tools/adm/SunOS/pca \<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--pattern="!VRTS|VERITAS|NetBackup|VxVM|SYMC" \<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--ignore=144500-19 --ignore=121430-66
--ignore=127655-07 -l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(/usr/tools is a commen NFS mounted tools area
we use).<o:p></o:p></p>
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