Martin,
I just installed 141444-09 on a bunch of Sparc machines in my usual
fashion of "pca -d -i" in multi-user mode with no problems. However, I
do get a machine as quiet as possible before doing a kernel patch; ie
shut down services like web, ntp, named, and the like.
I don't have any x86 Suns.
Jeff Earickson
Colby College
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Martin Paul wrote:
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:05:46 +0200
From: Martin Paul <mar...@par.univie.ac.at>
Reply-To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca@lists.univie.ac.at>
To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca@lists.univie.ac.at>
Subject: [pca] new kernel patches
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.
