Re: kernel patch loading but not updating KernelID

Francisco Franco <[email protected]> Tue, 25 May 2004 20:48:37 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405252047280.25522-100000@jupiter.hq.aerocompsys.com>
Hi Jim,

By any chance, are you using DiskSuite and does your machine have Hitachi 
disks?

If so, you will have to upgrade the firmware of the disks, then you will 
be ok.

Francisco

On Tue, 25 May 2004, khoh jim wrote:

> Hi ,
> 
> I have loaded the Solaris 8 Kernel patch, 108528-29 on . When running the 
> `uname -v` command, server  still shows the kernel ID at -27. However, when 
> looking at /var/sadm/patch, it shows that the patch loaded successfully. I 
> re-loaded the patch using a "patchadd -u" to force the patch, and, again the 
> patch appeared to be successful. The server was rebooted several times.
> 
> Any ideas what the problem could be, or what I can do to resolve this issue?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Jim
> 
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