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<div>I recently patched several servers following the general steps shown here:</div>
<div><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://probably.co.uk/patching-a-live-solaris-10-system-with-lu-zfs-and-pca.html"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><u>http://probably.co.uk/patching-a-live-solaris-10-system-with-lu-zfs-and-pca.html</u></span></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div>After experiencing a problem on one out of six servers, I found this page:</div>
<div><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/heads_up_on_kernel_patch"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><u>https://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/heads_up_on_kernel_patch</u></span></font></a></span></font></div>
<div>which states that manual update of boot archive is needed. (See issue #2 in the blog)</div>
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<div>So, modifying the steps shown in the first web page above, with the new revelations from the second page,</div>
<div>I derive these possible steps:</div>
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<div>…</div>
<div><font face="Courier New"># pca -i -R /.alt.patching</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New"># rm -f /.alt.patching/platform/`uname -m`/boot_archive</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"># /.alt.patching/usr/sbin/bootadm -R /.alt.patching update-archive</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New"># luumount patching</font></div>
<div>…</div>
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<div>Can anyone confirm that I’m on the right track here? I’m using ZFS root and non-global zones. I need to use LU to reduce end-user downtime.</div>
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<div>BTW, the problem that I experienced after rebooting to the patched server, was that it printed many errors, and then it did panic and rebooted.</div>
<div>It seems to stay up now, but I don’t trust it as much since the panic. I’m guessing that the file /kernel/drv/ipsecah.conf was not valid due to the boot archive not getting updated as a part of the patching process.</div>
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<div>The error shown below repeated, each time with a different character inside the ‘’ marks.</div>
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<div>… genunix: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: Unexpected token '^H' on line 1 of /kernel/drv/ipsecah.conf</div>
<div>…</div>
<div>… genunix: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: Unexpected token '' on line 2 of /kernel/drv/ipsecah.conf</div>
<div>… last message repeated 1724 times</div>
<div>…</div>
<div>… savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a10146eba0 addr=58 mmu_fsr=0 occurr</div>
<div>ed in module "ip" due to a NULL pointer dereference</div>
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