UPDATE: How to undo what you don't know you did?

Well - my misery continues.  First, sorry for the delay here, but of
course the system cratered the day before I had to leave for a week long
conference.  Preyed on my mind the whole time.

Anyway - thanks to all who responded.  I was able to try some things
today, but not having much luck. A number of files appear to be corrupted.
 Garbage in driver_aliases, in name_to_major, and others.  I decided to
bite the bullet and try a re-install.

Got out the DVD and booted to Custom Jumpstart.  Worked through all the
screens and decided to try to do an upgrade in the hopes I could preserve
the user data.  Ran the analysis on the patches, and the system said it
would not keep 140 patches.  I said okay and let it run.  Pretty much
nothing seems to have changed.  Still get a streaming load of errors about
driver_aliases and name_to_major, and some others.  It's like nothing was
changed.

If no one else can think of why this should be I'll just try to full clean
install tomorrow.

Again, thanks to all who took time out to read and respond.


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On 12/2/11 7:29 AM, "White, Bob (CONTR)" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Okay  I have Solaris 10 on a Sun Ultra 20, that was fully patched on Nov.
>4th.  Working fine.
>
>It is time for the monthly maintenance, so I went in and looked at all the
>patches that have been released in the last month.  A number of security
>patches, and some other things.  I didn't carefully read each one.  I
>selected
>them all with patch admin and let it install.  It came up at the end and
>said
>it needed to reboot.  I shut down my one application that is running on
>the
>box and checked the box for reboot and okay.
>
>The shutdown started, but got to a blank screen and stopped.  I let it
>sit for
>15 minutes in case it was doing something.  I finally had to power down.
>
>No the box is completely hosed.  All sorts of errors on boot up.  Can't
>find
>root password.  Can't load devices.  All sorts of errors.
>
>I can boot to failsafe  but don't know where to go from here.  Any
>suggestions?
>
>
>--
>Bob White
>M/S NLV075
>National Security Technologies, LLC
>Contractor for the United States Department of Energy
>Office: 702-295-2939
>Cell:   702-630-0352
>Pager:  702-794-1809
>Fax:    702-295-2934
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