The new kernel patches for Solaris 10 (from 10/09) have been published
today:
141444-09: SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
141445-09: SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
As always, the README states that they should be installed in
single-user mode and a reconfiguration boot should follow the installation.
As always, I installed them in multi-user mode and continued to add
other patches on my test machines :) This time, though, the x86 system
refused to install further patches; patchadd showed an error about not
being able to create a lock, seems to be connected to pkgserv. Plus,
when I issued an "init 6" to reboot the machines I got a syslog error:
/var/log/kern: ... unix: NOTICE: unrecognized ioctl 0x69534331
The machines didn't go down; I had to use "reboot" and/or "Stop-A;
reset-all" to get them to reboot cleanly.
Beware - I do *not* say that the patches are faulty, just that it might
be a good idea to follow Sun's advice to *really* install those in
single-user mode. I definitely would do that on any production machine.
Martin.
