Re: [pca] Patch 147440-25 issue
Am 17.10.2012 21:01, schrieb Culver, Michael: 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. That's nonsense, IMO. The order is determined by patch requirements, and patchadd (and therefore PCA) would refuse to install a patch unless its requirements are met. I haven't heard about any problems with 147440-25 yet, but it's pretty new. But if there is a problem with it rendering systems unbootable, this surely will be noticed by others as well. Just to be sure: The patch README has a note about a minimum firmware revision, but that's pretty old and you probably checked that already. Martin.
Re: [pca] Patch 147440-25 issue
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Culver, Michael mrcul...@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
Re: [pca] Patch 147440-25 issue
Make sure that your firmware is updated. We found that servers with old firmware would not reboot when applying 147440-xx (up to 147440-19). Once the firmware has been upgraded and the server is patched, our unbootable servers went away. From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Culver, Michael Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:01 PM To: pca@lists.univie.ac.at Subject: [pca] Patch 147440-25 issue 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? Mike
Re: [pca] Patch 147440-25 issue
I'm not running VxVM on this system but its good to know about that problem since I have few others that are. You guys are probably right about the firmware issue. Although the system exceeds the minimum firmware requirements for the patch, I wouldn't be surprised if that is the problem. I don't know if anyone else is running on t5120's but I have had nothing but problems with those systems since we got them. Worst servers I've ever had to deal with.
