[pca] Heads-Up - Withdrawn patches 150400-06, 150400-07, 150401-06 & 150401-07

2014-02-10 Thread Don O'Malley
aused. Best, -Don -- Don O'Malley Senior Manager, Software Maintenance Engineering Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware Block C, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8033883

Re: [pca] 18117543 patch 144872-02 is missing a hard requirement

2014-02-06 Thread Don O'Malley
74.1   Solaris 10 Patches 144872-02/144873-02 (WITHDRAWN) May Cause Boot   Failure if Patches 147002-01/147003-01 Are Not Also Installed   https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=1617874.1 Martin. --

Re: [pca] new Solaris 10 "patching strategy" at oracle???

2013-06-12 Thread Don O'Malley
reinstall it every time. Greetings Jan -- Dr. Thomas Bleek, Netzwerkadministrator Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Telegrafenberg A20/225 D-14473 Potsdam Tel.: +49 331 288- 1818/1681 Fax.: 1730 Mobil: +49 172 1543233 E-Mail: b...@gfz-potsdam.de <mailto:b...@gfz

Re: [pca] Solaris 10 1/13 preinstalled patches

2013-02-13 Thread Don O'Malley
s Update to get any fixes relesed after the Solaris Update (or in this case not delivered as part of the update itself). Best, -Don On 02/13/13 07:12, Martin Paul wrote: Hi Don, Am 12.02.2013 20:00, schrieb Don O'Malley: I'

Re: [pca] patch flood

2013-02-12 Thread Don O'Malley
pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 5:09 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: R

Re: [pca] Solaris 10 1/13 preinstalled patches

2013-02-12 Thread Don O'Malley
148150 02 < 03 --- 124 SunOS 5.10: Tomcat 4 removal patch 148861 -- < 01 --- 129 SunOS 5.10: Sun XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator Patch (post-S10U8) 149453 -- < 02 RS- 133 SunOS 5.10: CCR Update -- Don O

Re: [pca] patch flood

2013-02-08 Thread Don O'Malley
I installed all the new patches with PCA on both sparc and x86 - works fine. Users of PCA's "--safe" option might want to get the current development release, where I added some whitelist entries. Martin.

Re: [pca] Heads-up on patches 147440-16, 147440-17, 147441-16, 147441-17

2012-05-28 Thread Don O'Malley
me wrote: Hello Don, Are they? There *were* unavailable this morning CEST (MOS asked for a password with no explanation), but they can be downloaded again now. Laurent Don O'Malley a écrit :

Re: [pca] Heads-up on patches 147440-16, 147440-17, 147441-16, 147441-17

2012-05-25 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi, Quick update. Patches 147440-16, 147440-17, 147441-16 & 147441-17 are in the process of being withdrawn from MOS. I will share the accompanying SunAlert for the issue as soon as I get it. On 05/24/12 18:46, Don O'Mal

[pca] Heads-up on patches 147440-16, 147440-17, 147441-16, 147441-17

2012-05-24 Thread Don O'Malley
backing out the offending putback. Best, -Don -- Don O'Malley Manager, Software Maintenance Engineering Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware Block C, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland

Re: [pca] Heads up on another patch

2012-02-17 Thread Don O'Malley
Official fix ftrom Sun / Oracle is due in 7 - 10 days (approx end of February) in the form of  146232-14 Workaround is to turn off CHAP for the time being. Just a heads up for everyone. Drew. -- Don O'Malley

Re: [pca] anyone seen patch 145957-09 ? SunOS 5.10: fcp and fcip Patch

2012-02-16 Thread Don O'Malley
right :-) If only Jonathan was still around... ;) Funny, I just came across this article today: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/16/schwartz_carezone/ -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch/Pack

Re: [pca] anyone seen patch 145957-09 ? SunOS 5.10: fcp and fcip Patch

2012-02-16 Thread Don O'Malley
Download Summary: 1 total, 0 successful, 0 skipped, 1 failed core-sparc # weird. dc -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch/Package System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hard

Re: [pca] confirming the validiting of a home grown patch_order file

2012-01-26 Thread Don O'Malley
' may help... Best, -Don Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch/Package System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware Block C, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8033883 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test_ww_...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] can patch 147440-09 be trusted ?

2012-01-10 Thread Don O'Malley
It's far from perfect, but with security issues we must err on the side of caution. For this reason we do not (and never had) made bug reports for security issues publicly available. HTH, -Don Dennis -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch/Package System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] broken ? grep "^118822" $PCA_XREFDIR/patchdiag.xref

2012-01-04 Thread Don O'Malley
Sorry for the delay getting back to you on this one. I'm looking into it. Best, -Don Dennis Clarke wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Can someone confirm that the patchdiag.xref seems a tad broken? try this : grep "^118822" $PCA_XREFDIR/patchdiag.xref No i

Re: [pca] Packages are older after upgrading and patching

2011-11-22 Thread Don O'Malley
How is it possible that *after upgrading*, this packages went from v1.1.4 to 1.0? Is that because of patch 138195-04, that was not present in the old BE, but has been installed in the new one? Laurent

Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

2011-11-04 Thread Don O'Malley
On 04/11/11 16:24, Don O'Malley wrote: Hi, The latest Solaris 9 KUs will not require an Extended Support contract. Let me rephrase... The latest Solaris 9 KUs should not require an Extended Support con

Re: [pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

2011-11-04 Thread Don O'Malley
Details on Gerry Haskins' blog:   http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_9_transitioning_to_extended -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware Eas

Re: [pca] Non-existing patch - patchdiag wishlist

2011-11-01 Thread Don O'Malley
hich would get the xref file plus all the extra information from the XML links, combine it into an extended xref file with some new columns, and offer that file, reliable and daily. Like that, the information harvesting at least would have to be done only once, and not by every PCA user.

Re: [pca] Non-existing patch

2011-11-01 Thread Don O'Malley
lem from all angles and patchdiag is only one small cog in the wheel. Best, -Don Hope this makes sense! Kind of. Although sometimes I'm glad that certain things don't make sense to me; understanding too much might lead to insanity :) Martin. -- Don O'M

Re: [pca] Non-existing patch

2011-10-28 Thread Don O'Malley
31-03") && ($r="117172-17"); # 116473 Read like this: Patch 119757 requires 125077-02, which doesn't exist, so it should require 120011-09 instead. Martin. -- Don O'Ma

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref inconsistency

2011-10-03 Thread Don O'Malley
08:12, Martin Paul wrote: Don O'Malley wrote: That said, something has happened to trigger 119081-25 being marked as obsolete (I suspect this is a result of an internal process). In the current patchdiag.xref (Oct/02/11) the sta

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref inconsistency

2011-09-30 Thread Don O'Malley
leads to a situation, where patch dependencies can not be resolved. Don - can you check whether the obsoletion of 119081-25 was an error? Or maybe 124628-14 obsoletes 119081-25, but its README and patchinfo file contradict. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Tes

Re: [pca] EXTERNAL: Re: Can not exclude 144500-19!?

2011-09-22 Thread Don O'Malley
attempted.   Thank you Don   Bob Tate   From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:50 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [pca] Can not ex

Re: [pca] Can not exclude 144500-19!?

2011-09-22 Thread Don O'Malley
aster, Cheaper, Reliable:  Pick any two.   -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-16 Thread Don O'Malley
is patch tool. and BTW, peace on earth would be nice, too :) :-) Best, -Don Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware

[pca] Patch metadata & patch related URIs

2011-09-16 Thread Don O'Malley
lot that are not listed above please let me know. Best, -Don -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

[pca] How to keep up to date with new SunAlerts

2011-09-14 Thread Don O'Malley
   2. Add the Platform "GENERIC (All Platforms)" 3. Check the "Knowledge Articles" box 4. Check the "Alerts" box 5. Select "OK" (selection window closes)    8. Select "Save" 1. You should be able to see

Re: [pca] patch precedence between 121430-57 and 121428-LR

2011-08-24 Thread Don O'Malley
certain installation order. As a matter of fact, many people install patches with PCA in the order it uses, and if this would cause problems, these would be reported here immediately (and be taken care of with a workaround in PCA). hope that helps, Martin. -- Don O&

Re: [pca] [[slightly] off-topic Warning]: Solaris 10 SPARC patch 144500-19 and EMC PowerPath

2011-08-18 Thread Don O'Malley
...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:31 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Cc: loris.ser...@bnymellon.com; sunmanag...@sunmanagers.org Subject: EXT

Re: [pca] [[slightly] off-topic Warning]: Solaris 10 SPARC patch 144500-19 and EMC PowerPath

2011-08-18 Thread Don O'Malley
ilar issue may affect the "Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager". Best, -Don On 18/08/11 12:50, Martin Paul wrote: Don O'Malley wrote: This is a late breaking issue that we are currently investigating in partnership with EMC.

Re: [pca] [[slightly] off-topic Warning]: Solaris 10 SPARC patch 144500-19 and EMC PowerPath

2011-08-18 Thread Don O'Malley
not necessarily those of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation or any of its affiliates. Please refer to http://disclaimer.bnymellon.com/eu.htm for disclosures relating to European legal entities -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System

Re: [pca] What's wrong here? is it me? Please help

2011-08-09 Thread Don O'Malley
such as /usr/sfw/bin/wget or /opt/csw/bin/wget? See supported versions of wget in https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1199543.1 Best, -Don Laurent -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware E

Re: [pca] Heads-up: New download service

2011-08-09 Thread Don O'Malley
Laurent Blume wrote: On 08/02/11 14:30, Don O'Malley wrote: There were some backend changes to the Oracle patch download service over the weekend. Everything went very smoothly, but you may notice that there is now an additional level of redirection added to

[pca] Heads-up: No new Recommended Cluster for a couple of days

2011-08-05 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi, Just a quick heads-up... We will not be publishing an updated Recommended Patchset for Solaris 9/10 until mid next week. My team creates & tests these patchsets. As we are in the middle of physically moving our lab we will not be in a position to produce an updated Recommended Patchset

Re: [pca] Heads-up: New download service

2011-08-02 Thread Don O'Malley
Solaris 10 patches in the past month to six weeks. Is this because a new release of Solaris 10 is about to happen? Jeff Earickson Colby College On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Martin Paul wrote: Don O'Malley wrote: Everything went very smoothly, but you may notice that

[pca] Heads-up: New download service

2011-08-02 Thread Don O'Malley
==>] 47,267 163K/s in 0.3s 2011-08-02 10:31:08 (163 KB/s) - `/tmp/120068-02.zip' saved [47267/47267] irepatch@goshawk:~$ -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref shrunk

2011-07-14 Thread Don O'Malley
Don O'Malley wrote: Hi Martin, When we first migrated patch metadata to MOS (in June 2009) we never included metadata for patches for products that were EOSL. That should be June 2010! As part of the recent MOS 5.3 release we have aligned patchdiag.xref with the metadata avai

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref shrunk

2011-07-14 Thread Don O'Malley
why? BTW - a quick comparison of the runtime of a typical PCA command shows a speedup of about 40%, due to the reduced number of patches to analyze. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764

Re: [pca] ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content..

2011-07-11 Thread Don O'Malley
vie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:37 AM To: Glen Gunselman; PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re: [pca] ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content..   Hi Jeff/All, The issue should be resolved now! Could folks d

Re: [pca] ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content..

2011-07-11 Thread Don O'Malley
it again.  Rejected, not authorized. Jeff Earickson Colby College On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Don O'Malley wrote:   Is anyone ABLE to download patches via wget/PCA today? Best, -Don

Re: [pca] ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content..

2011-07-11 Thread Don O'Malley
Jeff Earickson Colby College On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Don O'Malley wrote:   Is anyone ABLE to download patches via wget/PCA today? Best, -Don Rajiv Gunja wrote: Thanks Don. --

Re: [pca] ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content..

2011-07-11 Thread Don O'Malley
Is anyone ABLE to download patches via wget/PCA today? Best, -Don Rajiv Gunja wrote: Thanks Don. -- Rajiv G Gunja Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 09:35, Don O'Malley <don.omal...@oracle.com> wrote: I'll

Re: [pca] ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content..

2011-07-11 Thread Don O'Malley
-Mail: b...@gfz-potsdam.de -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] no xref file?

2011-07-11 Thread Don O'Malley
/tmp/patchdiag.xref   Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (1/1)   $ head -1 patchdiag.xref   ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Jul/07/11 ##   $ Even when there are no new patches, the date in the header usually gets updated. Don? :) Martin. -- Do

Re: [pca] Changes in Recommended OS Cluster

2011-07-01 Thread Don O'Malley
ss the above note explains this. So don't be surprised when "pca -l missingr" suddenly shows a lot more patches than yesterday. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] Oracle removed support from patchdiag.xref for --minimal option in pca?

2011-06-08 Thread Don O'Malley
een update releases using pca?  Except maybe grabbing the patchdiag.xref on the day the CPU is released and comparing the patch revisions between patchdiag and the CPU?   On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Don O'Malley <don.omal...@oracle.com> wrote: Hi Jeff, The --minima

Re: [pca] Oracle removed support from patchdiag.xref for --minimal option in pca?

2011-05-27 Thread Don O'Malley
to Martin or Don:  Do you know if this is intentional? -- Jeff -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] SunRay (x86) patches don't show if not installed

2011-03-29 Thread Don O'Malley
rough my team and so does not end up in the patchdiag.xref file. It looks like patches 140993-07/140994-07/140995-07 were freshbitted into the latest release image and were never released as standalone patches through our process... HTH, -Don Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Pat

Re: [pca] 109962-14 Failed (Error 404: Not Found)

2011-03-23 Thread Don O'Malley
zwerkadministrator Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Telegrafenberg G261 D-14473 Potsdam Tel.: +49 331 288- 1818/1681 Fax.: 1730 Mobil: +49 172 1543233 E-Mail: b...@gfz-potsdam.de -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hard

[pca] Apologies in advance :)

2010-12-03 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi, I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks and my vacation mail is a little over enthusiastic at the best of times... Apologies in advance for the mails that will be sent to the PCA alias over the next two weeks :-) Best, -Don

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-22 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Dennis/All, I've taken a look through the patch download service and can't find any issues. If anyone is having problems downloading patches please let me know. Remember, it should be business as usual for SunSolve between now and December 10th... Best, -Don Don O&#x

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-22 Thread Don O'Malley
as reported problems with SunSolve on various weekends in the past, so that's nothing new (but still sad). This morning, I downloaded patchdiag.xref and 8 new patches with PCA without any problem. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Eng

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-19 Thread Don O'Malley
ernal networking issue. Best, -Don -GGR -- Rajiv G Gunja Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:11, Don O'Malley <don.omal...@oracle.com> wrote: Hi, Is anyone having issues downloading any of the 4 sample patches? Please remember tha

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-19 Thread Don O'Malley
of the patches before the whole site started returning errors. With my support contract linked to my MOS account, shouldn't I be able to download patches that require entitlement, too, though? Maybe that hasn't been implemented yet? -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing! - certs q

2010-11-19 Thread Don O'Malley
Gerard Henry wrote: On 11/17/10 11:05, Don O'Malley wrote: I've tested downloading patchdiag.xref and 119254-76.zip, both using the certificate file and the --no-check-certificate option and everything looks good: bash-3.00# wget --http-user

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-19 Thread Don O'Malley
I could now download the READMEs of all 4 sample patches successfully. This works without specifying --http-user and --http-passwd, too. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-18 Thread Don O'Malley
) Thanks! -Don Don O'Malley wrote: Hi Martin/All, The new patch download service - getupdates.oracle.com - is now available for testing. Details of how to use the new download service are available in the updated wget document - http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-

[pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-17 Thread Don O'Malley
100%[>] 1,708,956630.35K/s 09:50:50 (628.06 KB/s) - `/tmp/119254-76.zip' saved [1708956/1708956] bash-3.00#   Please take this opportunity to check this out in your own environment (bearing in mind you may need new firewall rules added to getupdates.oracle.com). As advertised on SunSolve, the retirement date for SunSolve is December 10th, at which date getupdates.oracle.com will be the only wget service you can use to download patches. Best, -Don -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] Sunsolve retirement and actual state

2010-11-03 Thread Don O'Malley
All patch .zip downloads and their associated README's should now be available. Best, -Don Don O'Malley wrote: Hi Daniel/All, There was an issue with some patches that we discovered and fixed last week. This issue effected some unsigned (.zip) patch downloads. I th

Re: [pca] Sunsolve retirement and actual state

2010-11-02 Thread Don O'Malley
new getupdates.oracle.com patch download service. Details of the new patch download service are available from http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-79-1199543.1-1. Best, -Don Jon Price wrote: So those problems are not related to sunsolve being retired? Is there any possibility that pca

Re: [pca] Anyone seen 124864-26 ?

2010-11-02 Thread Don O'Malley
t, too. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] Sunsolve retirement and actual state

2010-11-02 Thread Don O'Malley
7;t been fetched but exist in patchdiag.xref file: 124863-26 124864-26 124865-25 126608-03 128224-11 133197-37 134008-44 135794-04 ave, daniel -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Ph

Re: [pca] SunSolve Maintenance Window on Monday October 25th

2010-10-22 Thread Don O'Malley
FYI - Don't think you usually blog about this kind of stuff, but just in case... Don O'Malley wrote: Hi, There is a scheduled maintenance window planned for SunSolve on Monday 25th October from 4 pm to 6 pm (US) Mountain Time. Please be aware that this outage will impact

[pca] SunSolve Maintenance Window on Monday October 25th

2010-10-22 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi, There is a scheduled maintenance window planned for SunSolve on Monday 25th October from 4 pm to 6 pm (US) Mountain Time. Please be aware that this outage will impact the Patch Download Service during these 2 hours. The following is the related message on SunSolve:     SunSolve Planned M

Re: [pca] zpool unavailable after Kernel Patch 142909-17

2010-10-22 Thread Don O'Malley
Sounds like the kind of problem that DTrace could help to diagnose (though you would need to have a good idea of where the problem is to start with, so you place your probes in the right area)... Perhaps there might be something in the DTrace Toolkit could help - see http://hub.opensolaris.org

Re: [pca] zpool unavailable after Kernel Patch 142909-17

2010-10-14 Thread Don O'Malley
arantee that it will work for you, but at least a prove that it doesn't harm all systems. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] zpool unavailable after Kernel Patch 142909-17

2010-10-13 Thread Don O'Malley
hed but now I don't know how to proceed:-( Any hints other than opening a case, which I will do after getting no responses? TIA, Thomas -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3,

Re: [pca] 404 Not Found for today's new patches

2010-10-13 Thread Don O'Malley
These patches shoulb be available in the next couple of hours. Don O'Malley wrote: Investigating now, will have the patches available asap. Best, -Don Martin Paul wrote: Just FYI - once again, I have troubles downloading the new patches from today's patchdiag

Re: [pca] Sunsolve retirement

2010-10-13 Thread Don O'Malley
don't have any information about a schedule regarding activation of the new service and a possible parallel phase yet. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353

Re: [pca] 404 Not Found for today's new patches

2010-10-13 Thread Don O'Malley
Investigating now, will have the patches available asap. Best, -Don Martin Paul wrote: Just FYI - once again, I have troubles downloading the new patches from today's patchdiag.xref. Any attempt to download e.g. 144554-01, 144555-01, 144560-01 or 144914-03 fails with "404 Not Found". Downloa

Re: [pca] Kernel Patch 142909-17

2010-10-12 Thread Don O'Malley
page on your OpenSolaris system. Best, -Don Ron Halstead wrote:  David, Me again. On my system (Nevada 129), there is no /etc/patch/pdo.conf, just  patch.conf and secret.conf. Ron Halstead On 10/11/10 03:28, Don O'Malley wrote: Hi David, Good point re: num

Re: [pca] Kernel Patch 142909-17

2010-10-11 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi David, Good point re: num_proc. The maximum recommended value for num_proc is 1.5 * So, for example a T2000 with psrinfo like this: # psrinfo 0 on-line since 07/13/2010 15:45:39 1 on-line since 07/13/2010 15:45:40 2 on-line since 07/13/2010 15:45:40 3 on-line since 07/13/2010 15:

Re: [pca] Problems with latest patchdiag.xref

2010-09-17 Thread Don O'Malley
n later. Martin.   -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] Solaris Update Patch Bundle updates /etc/release

2010-09-08 Thread Don O'Malley
patches in the bundle is already present? Or should we stay away from installing that patch? Please let me know, Thanks. -GGR -- Rajiv G Gunja Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 05:16, Don O'Malley <don.omal...@oracle.com> wrote: Hi Rajiv/

Re: [pca] Solaris Update Patch Bundle updates /etc/release

2010-09-08 Thread Don O'Malley
laris Update release. --- How will this effect us? Can we simulate this or is this addition/change included as a part of kernel patch or part of their wrapper? Do you know? Should also be a question for Don. Please advise. Thanks -GGR -- Rajiv G Gunja Blog: http://ossrocks.blogsp

Re: [pca] download problems

2010-09-06 Thread Don O'Malley
patch that is a breech of contract. If we have several thousand others that feel the same way on a long weekend then we have a class action law suit to file against Oracle Corporation for breech of contract and a few otehr areas of tort. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Reven

Re: [pca] download problems

2010-09-06 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Bernd, Changing the protocol from http to https will usually cause you top be redirected to a different back-end SunSolve server, so this is why you may see https fail, but subsequent http requests pass. The offending server in this case has now been fixes and so the issue should be resol

Re: [pca] download problems

2010-09-06 Thread Don O'Malley
I'm seeing an issue with one of the backend load-balanced download servers. Very few people should be impacted. I'll get it resolved asap. Best, -Don Don O'Malley wrote: I'll follow up Martin. Thanks for letting me know. Best, -Don Martin Paul wrote: And here we go a

Re: [pca] download problems

2010-09-06 Thread Don O'Malley
I'll follow up Martin. Thanks for letting me know. Best, -Don Martin Paul wrote: And here we go again. Can't even get patchdiag.xref this time: Resolving sunsolve.sun.com... 192.18.108.40 Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com|192.18.108.40|:443... connected. ^C Martin.

Re: [pca] Slightly OT: Patch 124868-14 broken?

2010-08-11 Thread Don O'Malley
FYI - This patch is going to be withdrawn from SunSolve later today and a new rev with a fix will be released asap. Sorry for an inconvenience. Best, -Don Dagobert Michelsen wrote: Hi Dennis, Am 11.08.2010 um 04:47 schrieb Dennis Clarke: I have a problem installing a patch (with PCA, but PC

Re: [pca] Slightly OT: Patch 124868-14 broken?

2010-08-10 Thread Don O'Malley
works as expected): Installing 124868-14 (3/5) This is obviously the same issue as the previously discussed 124867-15 which I just remembered :-/ Sorry for the noise...   -- Dago -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Reven

Re: [pca] 124867-15 fails dependency check

2010-08-06 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi David/Martin, I've just reproduced and logged a bug for this. It looks like a clear case for patch withdrawal. I will get these patches off SunSolve asap. Thanks for bringing this to my attention and apologies for the inconvenience. Best, -Don Don O'Malley wrote: Looking

Re: [pca] 124867-15 fails dependency check

2010-08-06 Thread Don O'Malley
anybody to install this patch, I'm sure Oracle will fix that without any further on your side. Removing the wrong quotation characters and repackaging the patch shouldn't be a big problem. I'll send a direct Cc: to Don O'Malley anyway. Martin.

Re: [pca] Error 503: Service Unavailable

2010-08-04 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Asif, I've just checked the patch download servers and they appear to be working fine. Please let me know if you see any further issues. Best, -Don Asif Iqbal wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote: $ pca -V -d 127127 Option download: 1 Option patchdir: /ho

Re: [pca] Error 403: Forbidden

2010-08-04 Thread Don O'Malley
I'll follow up and see what I can find out... Best, -Don Martin Paul wrote: Asif Iqbal wrote: No. I knew about vintage patches, just did not connect the dot. However I posted another email about 503 error on solaris 10. Yes, we're talking about two different problems here. One of them is S

Re: [pca] OS CPU

2010-07-20 Thread Don O'Malley
ivie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 7:32 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re: [pca] OS CPU Hi Ying, Each team is responsible for testing the CPU that they produce; we produce the Solaris OS CPU, thus

Re: [pca] OS CPU

2010-07-19 Thread Don O'Malley
6633 4828 Loop Central Dr. Houston TX 77081     From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:20 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re: [pca] OS CPU Hi Ying, The

Re: [pca] OS CPU

2010-07-13 Thread Don O'Malley
o not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. -- Don O'Malley Manager,Patch System Test Reven

Re: [pca] Cluster, zones, noreboot.

2010-07-13 Thread Don O'Malley
cs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2971/z476997776?a=view I have cc'ed Chris who has lots of experience in this area. But the main concern is that the zone might failover during such patching. Enda On 13/07/2010 10:56, Don O'Malley wrote: Hey Enda/Ed, Any thoughts on this? In addi

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-07-05 Thread Don O'Malley
Identified 2 issues. Following up now. Apologies for any inconvenience... Best, -Don Don O'Malley wrote: I'll see what I can find out... Again :( Martin Paul wrote: Diana Orrick wrote: Oracle Sunsolve appears to be down/unaccessible/incredibly slow...again.

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-07-05 Thread Don O'Malley
eally don't like. Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland Phone: +353 1 8199764 Team Alias: rpe_patch_system_test...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] PCA not working since Oracle buy out.

2010-06-30 Thread Don O'Malley
our SOA_Username in the mail too. Could you also provide more detail about the issues you are having with the Patch Basket (I'm assuming were talking about the PatchFinder tool - http://sunsolve.sun.com/patchfinder/ - here...) too please? It seems to work ok for me... Best, -Don Jürgen

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Don O'Malley
oks like a sunsolve authentication page.  Anybody having this problem? That's usually pointing at the Sun Online Account not being valid (anymore). Can you login interactively on SunSolve and download files from there? Martin. -- Jeff -- Don

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Martin, I just checked this out and all appears to be working fine for me; longest delay was about 7 seconds... Can you confirm you're still seeing the long delays? Thanks! -Don Martin Paul wrote: Hi Don, There was an issue on one of the SunSolve servers fixed and hour or so ago. Ca

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Martin, There was an issue on one of the SunSolve servers fixed and hour or so ago. Can you confirm that you are no longer having issues downloading patches via http or https now please? Thanks! -Don Don O'Malley wrote: I'll see what I can find out... dpecka wrote:

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Don O'Malley
e sunsolve answers: Mon Jun 28 09:42:24 2010: Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com|192.18.108.40|:443... connected. Mon Jun 28 09:43:56 2010: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily Martin. -- Don O'Malley Manager, Patch System Test Revenue Product Engine

Re: [pca] PCA not working since Oracle buy out.

2010-06-28 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi, Could you please also ensure that you have completed "Step 5 - Register for patch download automation" on the "Update Account" link also. The T&C on SunSolve changed after the Oracle acquisition, so you will need to accept the new T&C prior to being able to download patches via wget (whi

Re: [pca] Patch 138261-02 problems..

2010-06-21 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Andy, Does backing off patch 138261-02 fix the problem? Also, can you provide a case#, so I can follow this up please? Thanks! -Don Glenn Satchell wrote: On 06/18/10 18:09, Andy Fiddaman wrote: Since installing 138261-02 here I'm seeing problems which cause cron to stall.. Whenever loga

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