Re: kernel patch loading but not updating KernelID

Try resyncing the mirrors and boot again....

On Thu, 27 May 2004, khoh jim wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Thank you for all your replies.
> I'm using Disksuite and I've break the mirror in single user mode when I 
> applying the patch.
> I have also rebotted the machine after the patch, but still unable to 
> upgrade to -29.
> 
> 
> 
> echo "$<utsname" |mdb -k
> utsname:
> utsname:        sys     SunOS
> utsname+0x101:  node    hydra-smc
> utsname+0x202:  release 5.8
> utsname+0x303:  version Generic_108528-27
> utsname+0x404:  machine sun4us
> 
> ====================================
> kernel
> 
> ls -l
> total 4684
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 May 25 16:19 cpu
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 May 25 16:19 drv
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys      1601984 Jan 17 08:19 genunix
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 May 25 16:22 misc
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Jan  6 15:09 sparcv9
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 May 23  2003 sys
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 May 23  2003 tod
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys       767208 Jan 17 08:03 unix
> 
> sparcv9
> ls -l
> total 6000
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys      2139240 Nov 11  2003 genunix
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys       907768 Nov 11  2003 unix
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Ryan A. Krenzischek" <[email protected]>
> >To: khoh jim <[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: kernel patch loading but not updating KernelID
> >Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:10:45 -0500 (CDT)
> >
> >
> >Reboot.
> >
> >Ryan
> >
> >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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Larry W. Cashdollar
Sr UNIX Systems Administrator