8_recommended patch

I installed SunOS 8, version 5/2003 on a V240. 'uname -a' gave me the following: ...5.8 108528-20......
I then applied 8_Recommended patch from January, 2005.
I did another 'uname -a' after I rebooted and it gave me the same kernel patch id 108528-20.
I checked the /var/sadm/install_date/Solaris2.8 file and the patch install seemed to complete ok.
Does that mean that my OS was already up to the latest patch level or do I have a problem?

Did you perform the patch cluster installation in single-user mode? All kernel patches should be applies that way.
I won't say if that is the cause for what you're seeing, but I've seen stranger things happen when the R&S cluster is applied in multi-user mode.

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Ldap no more working after patch

Hi,
I just applied 8_Recommended patches to one of my netras. unluckily the system now reports bad when you try to log on via ldap-authentication...
"[ID 293258 user.error] libsldap: Status: 2 Mesg: Unable to load configuration '/var/ldap/ldap_client_file' ('')."
comes within the logfiles every some seconds.
someone got a clue?

Is the /var/ldap/ldap_client_file still there? If it's not, you'll want to put it back or rerun 'ldapclient init'. That file is fetched from the LDAP and refreshed by ldap_cachemgr(1M). If it's missing, the system won't know how to fetch the naming service info from LDAP.
Is there a ":saved" directory under /var/ldap? It may have the original files. You can also check /var/sadm/patch to see if anyting was saved in there.
HTH,
Roger S.

Solaris 8 - hsfs or not hsfs

Hi
I am using Solaris 8, plus all recommended patches as of yesterday, added via the 8_recommended patch cluster then pca, on a Sun Blade 1500.
The problem is with mounting DVD media. I have an original DVD disc, mountable just about everywhere else. But it does not mount when put in the drive. I have stopped vold, and tried to mount by hand.
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2 /x
hsfs mount: /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2 is not an hsfs file system.
However, if I
dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2 of=xx.dump
lofiadm -a /path/to/xx.dump
and then
mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /x
it mounts. so the data I read via dd from the drive clearly is a hsfs/iso9660 filesystem, and the the media is readable.
How does Solaris 8/mount_hsfs try to work out if the device contains a valid hsfs filesystem, and why might it have got the wrong answer this time? Other suggestions?
The most recent hsfs patch, 109764=06, is applied.
Kevin

The CD device is "unknown", but the raw dump I made with dd is reported as hsfs
Kevin
fstyp /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s2
Unknown_fstyp (no matches)
# lofiadm
Block Device File
/dev/lofi/1 /xx.dump
# fstyp /dev/lofi/1
hsfs

How to report problems??

Hi
This may be a dumb question, but how do I report problems with patches?
I can't find any place on this site.
Just to be on topic:
I have a problem with gethostbyname function. I have installed the latest 8_recommended patch cluster, and the problem which is claimed to be corrected is still there.
Thanks

Hi,
We are facing a rather strange problem with the latest kernel patch on Solaris 9. (Generic_112233-08). We had not faced this problem with any of the other kernel patches of Solaris 9.
Our application has a main thread and a single child thread (pthread). The main thread schedules aio_writes() on the raw disk interface and lets the child thread block on sigwaitinfo() to listen to the signal completion notification. This is communicated to it via the SI_ASYNCIO code of SIGPOLL. The child thread then informs the main thread by writing to a bi-directional pipe. Since the main thread has registered for read interest on the bi-directional pipe (via /dev/poll) it is informed of the completion of the aio_write() without having to block itself. Under normal circumstances, the child thread receives SIGPOLL with SI_ASYNCIO code.
This application has been running fine on all the previous builds of Solaris (Generic, Generic_112233-04, Generic_112233-06) on sparc platform expect with the latest kernel patch. The child thread now keeps receiving SIGPOLL with SI_NOINFO code. There has been no change in our application and we are perplexed to the reason of this behaviour. Since it is SI_NOINFO there is not much debugging information we can get.
We have been able to replicate this behaviour using a small stand-alone program. We are attaching it at the end of the email. We tried this program on a couple of different Sparc systems and were able to reproduce this behaviour on one of them but not on the other.
Has anybody faced problems with regard to SIGPOLL in the latest kernel patch of Solaris 9 for sparc systems ?
Thanks

LMS25 / Common Services 3.0 problem (dbpasswd.pl doesn't work)

Hi.
During CS3.0 installation I got an error:
ERROR: Unable to Change password for DSN cmf
ERROR: After install you can change the database password
ERROR: by running /opt/CSCOpx/bin/dbpasswd.pl
I tried to run /opt/CSCOpx/bin/dbpasswd.pl script, but got error again:
bash-2.03# /opt/CSCOpx/bin/dbpasswd.pl all
Please enter the new password for database cmf:
Please enter the new password again for verification:
INFO: Start changing password for database 'cmf'...
Starting database engine cmfEng
ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/CSCOpx/objects/db/lib/libdblib9.so.1: symbol UnixForkProtection_Init: referenced symbol not found
Killed
I tried to set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH, tried to remove .profile, tried even to install solaris 8 from the scratch. It doesn't work even on fresh installation with 8_Recommended and all required Solaris patches. I tried also different installation disks with May 05 patches and without.
ldd doesn't show anything strange:
bash-2.03# ldd /opt/CSCOpx/objects/db/lib/libdblib9.so.1
libdbtasks9.so.1 => /opt/CSCOpx/objects/db/lib/libdbtasks9.so.1
librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1
libnsl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1
libxnet.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxnet.so.1
libm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libm.so.1
libaio.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaio.so.1
libmp.so.2 => /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440/lib/libc_psr.so.1
libsocket.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
bash-2.03#
We have same LMS 2.5 on another server ( same model, same operating system, same patches) and it looks fine.
Could somebody explain how to debug and solve this issue?

Hi.
Also /opt/CSCOpx/selftest/database.pl didn't work with same error message.
I found the cause of problem. I have reproduced this error in test environment. The problem was in 8_Recommended patch cluster for Solaris 8. Patch cluster downloaded in September doesn't cause any errors, but after new patch cluster installing ( late October) CiscoWorks stops working. The reason for it is 109147-39 patch ( linker patch for Solaris). Older version 109147-37 doesn't cause an error in database manipulation. It is enough to run roll back this patch and 2 patches depended on it ( 108652-92, 108773-19). So command "patchrm 108652-92;patchrm 108773-19;patchrm 109147-39" solves the problem.

Funny Behavior

Hi,
I have ported some streams drivers to Solaris 8 that we have been using successfully on SCO openserver and Unixware for many years. I have solved most of the problems, but I am almost at a loss as to where to start looking for a solution to this last one.
There are 3 or 4 drivers multiplexed together in a stack maintained by a daemon which never exits while the software is in use. Because they were ported from a uniprocessor type environment, I mostly left them unchanged and added a mutually exclusive inner perimeter. In addition, one hardware driver uses mutexes everywhere that used to use SPL to turn off interrupts.
The problem is that when I kill my daemon, other processes begin to hang, even though they are not related to my daemon or the drivers. For example, in the shell script which killed the daemon, I put a sleep after the kill so that I could check to see that the daemon was really gone. The sleep would just wait forever. I eventually found that sleep was waiting in cv_wait_sig_swap in sigsuspend.
I'm looking for clues as to why the kernel would not wake up my processes. It isn't just sleep that hangs either. The shell goes away and won't come back if it is in a dtterm (but telnet works).
This morning, I applied the 8_Recommended patch from sunsolve, but that didn't seem to do anything for me. I'll post as many details as are necessary to solve this problem.
Thanks for any help,
Jared

I don't know if anybody saw this bug and thought about it, but I found my problem.
I had a few instances where I was calling qtimeout and not saving the result. I would then call quntimeout with stale data.
Jared

Modload: undefined symbols 'memcmp' - though was not used in source.

hello all,
I'm getting this error - undefined symbols 'memcmp' - while trying to load my kernel module. FYI, the 'memcmp' was never used in the source code. I'm using Solaris 8 running 64bit kernel on sparc with latest 8_Recommended patches installed. Am using GCC 3.1 from SunFreeware.com as the compiler.
Has anyone here encounter similar problem? Or have any pointer? Any thought would be apreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I think, gcc believes that a standard ANSI-C environment / library is available, so that gcc
is allowed to generate code that calls standard ANSI-C library routines.
Try to compile the driver with the gcc option "-ffreestanding", so that gcc doesn't make any
assumptions about the available runtime environment.

Patch Check Tool v. 1.2

Hi
I have used this and downloade a patch-bundle (tar-file)
In this patch-bundle there is a lot of zip-files.
But like the 8_Recommended.zip there is not a patch-order list.
Do I have to make such a patch-order list myself ??
Must i check each patch to see which one to install first ??
/Frank

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Jumpstart and patches

I have a version 9 jumpstart server setup, and recently had to add version 8 to it. I ran the version 8 setup_install_server script, pointing it to /data/install_server_8. I want to include the latest fix pack with my 8 install, so I copied all of those patches into the /data/install_server_8/Solaris_8/Patches directory so that the patch_finish script would find them. I then ran an install and didn't see anything explicit about patches being applied, so I started looking at the contents of patch_finish. I found the following line:
SOL_PATCHDIR=/cdrom/${SI_OSNAME}/Patches
Do I need to change that to my install directory's path (/data/install_server_8/Solaris_8)?
Is this documented somewhere? I have been looking through the 8 and 9 installation guides online, but haven't seen anything...

For individual patches, put the patches on your jumpstart server in an NFS shared directory. Mount the directory in your finish script, and run patchadds there. You'll want to include some flags to patchadd (patchadd -a path_to_admin_file -d path_to_patch -R /a). admin file should contain something like this:
mail=root
instance=overwrite
partial=nocheck
runlevel=nocheck
idepend=nocheck
rdepend=nocheck
space=ask
setuid=nocheck
conflict=nocheck
action=nocheck
basedir=default
If you are doing the whole jumbo pack, I personally recommend copying over unzipping the zip file during your finish script, and creating a custom script in /etc/rcS.d. I used the following S99patch in rcS.d:
#!/sbin/sh
/8_Recommended/install_cluster -q -nosave /8_Recommended
mv /etc/rcS.d/S99patch /etc/rcS.d/s99patch
rm -r /8_Recommended
echo Subject: `hostname` patch install >/patch_log
cat /var/sadm/install_data/Solaris_8_Recommended_log >>/patch_log
mail [email protected] </patch_log
reboot

Patching and backup process advice

Hello all ,
I have solaris 8 and I had a few questions about patching and backup.
1. Monthly I download the Sun 'Recommended and Security patchset", I then unzip and run patch_add.
When I review the terminal output while this is running I get quite a few :"unable to install patch exit code 8".
Should I be getting this?
Is there another way of applying patches(other than individually)?
2. What are good backup practices? Copy /etc and /var directories to a raid? Or is there a Sun tool for backups?
Thanks for any advice!

I believe this is a list of exit codes for patches. You'll most likely see a lot of return code 8 and 2. Not typically an issue.
# Exit Codes:
# 0 No error
# 1 Usage error
# 2 Attempt to apply a patch that's already been applied
# 3 Effective UID is not root
# 4 Attempt to save original files failed
# 5 pkgadd failed
# 6 Patch is obsoleted
# 7 Invalid package directory
# 8 Attempting to patch a package that is not installed
# 9 Cannot access /usr/sbin/pkgadd (client problem)
# 10 Package validation errors
# 11 Error adding patch to root template
# 12 Patch script terminated due to signal
# 13 Symbolic link included in patch
# 14 NOT USED
# 15 The prepatch script had a return code other than 0.
# 16 The postpatch script had a return code other than 0.
# 17 Mismatch of the -d option between a previous patch
# install and the current one.
# 18 Not enough space in the file systems that are targets
# of the patch.
# 19 $SOFTINFO/INST_RELEASE file not found
# 20 A direct instance patch was required but not found
# 21 The required patches have not been installed on the manager
# 22 A progressive instance patch was required but not found
# 23 A restricted patch is already applied to the package
# 24 An incompatible patch is applied
# 25 A required patch is not applied
# 26 The user specified backout data can't be found
# 27 The relative directory supplied can't be found
# 28 A pkginfo file is corrupt or missing
# 29 Bad patch ID format
# 30 Dryrun failure(s)
# 31 Path given for -C option is invalid
# 32 Must be running Solaris 2.6 or greater
# 33 Bad formatted patch file or patch file not found
# 34 The appropriate kernel jumbo patch needs to be installed
Back up your system before adding any patches (ufsdump). It's recommended that these patches are added in run level one.
There should be a script called something like "install_cluster" command in the 8_Recommended directory that you can use to add the patches.
By default the patches create backout info in /var, but I usually disable this (yeah, livin' on the edge) with the "-nosave" option.

Lagacy Patch Clusters or Patches

I am looking for patches for Solaris 2.5 and 2.6, are patch clusters available for these versions?
Regards,
Brian Borders

I don't think the order matters, although personally, I would do the Recommended cluster first.
A lot of the patches in the J2SE cluster are also included in the Recommended, so you'll see some "error 2" messages when running the second cluster.
You can check the README files for both. They list the pacthes each cluster has.
http://patches.sun.com/clusters/8_Recommended.README
http://patches.sun.com/clusters/J2SE_Solaris_8_Recommended.README

Patch clusters

I see separate clusters on the recommended ant security website for solaris 8 (regular and J2SE) If I'm runnung Java2E should I still apply both clusters or just the cluster for J2SE. If I need to install both, which order should they be installed in?
Thanks,
Sean Jaehne

I don't think the order matters, although personally, I would do the Recommended cluster first.
A lot of the patches in the J2SE cluster are also included in the Recommended, so you'll see some "error 2" messages when running the second cluster.
You can check the README files for both. They list the pacthes each cluster has.
http://patches.sun.com/clusters/8_Recommended.README
http://patches.sun.com/clusters/J2SE_Solaris_8_Recommended.README

Can't download 8_Recommended.zip

When I attempt to download the Solaris 8 update cluster (8_Recommended.zip) I get the following error (the same error when I try to download individual patches as well):
SunSolve Error
You have encountered the following error(s) or warning(s):
o An application error has occurred. The error is logged for further analysis.
Does anyone know where I can get the solaris 8 updates, if not from sun's own website?

This is not the correct forum for Sunsolve support, however the issue which you are experiencing, is a known one, and has been escalated to the appropriate team.

General Solaris 8 patch questions

I�m relatively new to Solaris administration, although I have managed HP-UX machines. Patch management seems to be an very important task. When installed the 8_Recommended bundle across various platforms, I notice that I get a variety of different ERROR return codes ( including 8, 2, and 25). If there is a place for more basic admin questions, please let me know. Here are my questions:
1.     Are the patch clusters typically cumulative? By this I mean does the cluster resolve all dependencies required to successfully install the full bundle? If not, how would you ensure that you have all of the patches required by the cluster. This seems as if it could be a very tedious process.
2.     Is there a way to specify saved patches in some location other then /var/sadm:
3.     When installing a patch, is it required to install the patch in /var/spool/sw? I had problems when I failed to do this.
4.     Is there a way to tell the patchadd or install_cluster command to enforce all patch dependencies.?
Any other patch management tips would be useful. It seems as if Solaris makes this very difficult considering that the logging is not very good the install_cluster command does not seem to check for dependencies, it just installs all the patches and you have to figure out what patches didn�t install and why. This can be very time consuming if you have to do this for 15-20 machines.
Many Thanks

I believe this is a list of exit codes for patches. You'll most likely see a lot of return code 8 and 2. Not typically an issue.
# Exit Codes:
# 0 No error
# 1 Usage error
# 2 Attempt to apply a patch that's already been applied
# 3 Effective UID is not root
# 4 Attempt to save original files failed
# 5 pkgadd failed
# 6 Patch is obsoleted
# 7 Invalid package directory
# 8 Attempting to patch a package that is not installed
# 9 Cannot access /usr/sbin/pkgadd (client problem)
# 10 Package validation errors
# 11 Error adding patch to root template
# 12 Patch script terminated due to signal
# 13 Symbolic link included in patch
# 14 NOT USED
# 15 The prepatch script had a return code other than 0.
# 16 The postpatch script had a return code other than 0.
# 17 Mismatch of the -d option between a previous patch
# install and the current one.
# 18 Not enough space in the file systems that are targets
# of the patch.
# 19 $SOFTINFO/INST_RELEASE file not found
# 20 A direct instance patch was required but not found
# 21 The required patches have not been installed on the manager
# 22 A progressive instance patch was required but not found
# 23 A restricted patch is already applied to the package
# 24 An incompatible patch is applied
# 25 A required patch is not applied
# 26 The user specified backout data can't be found
# 27 The relative directory supplied can't be found
# 28 A pkginfo file is corrupt or missing
# 29 Bad patch ID format
# 30 Dryrun failure(s)
# 31 Path given for -C option is invalid
# 32 Must be running Solaris 2.6 or greater
# 33 Bad formatted patch file or patch file not found
# 34 The appropriate kernel jumbo patch needs to be installed
#

Questions on Patch Deployment - From older post.

Almost a year ago I had a post with questions on the patch scan process.
https://forums.novell.com/novell-pro...s-updates.html
I have been reviewing my patch process again due to Student laptop's getting re-imaged this summer. I am hoping I can get some additional information based off the replies from that post.
1. It was stated that monthly patch bundles were created and deployed. I am unsure how that is best accomplished. If I create an all Microsoft (Windows 7 for example) Patch bundle for each month, yet the workstations it is deployed to may not require the patch, would this not cause the bundle to fail? If it just fails on that section will the remaining patch's continue to deploy?
What is the best way to deploy a monthly patch bundle? In the past I would create a patch bundle through the Patch Management area for Windows 7 but assign to only a single workstation and then go back and assign to the Windows 7 group as a "run on ref" option. Is it better to assign the patch bundle to all nonpatched devices? If this is done will a system that is reimaged and no longer has the patch or a new system created after the bundle create be automatically assigned said bundle?
Any other good strategies for patching systems? I create custom bundles for Adobe, Java, and Quicktime to ensure I control how they are deployed. Java seems to be one that works better when older versions are not installed. This method seems to be working well for those products. It is my MS Windows updates that are way off the mark. I have most of my systems with 60 to 80 patches reported ready. No matter how many times I deploy the patches they never seem to report as patched on the devices (Even tho the bundle reports back as successful). I am getting ready to start an SR since I think this is an issue with the server since so many of my systems are doing this. Good deployment procedures would be nice since I really hate to mess with my Universal WIndows image since it is working so well. Recreating it just to patch it with the latest Windows Updates would be pain.
Thanks
Richard

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