Patch 121308-12 breaks solaris management console

Dear Moderator,
Hope not asking too much.
Could you notify your counterparts that patch 121308-12 breaks Solaris Management Console?
SMC doesn't load the tool box after patch 121308-12 is applied. I backed out the patch and SMC works fine. Patch 121308-11 is fine.
I had to remove the patch from 50+ servers.
I am running Solaris 10 update 3 on my servers.
What I really want is a version 13 of the patch 121308 that obsoletes version 12. This way, I don't have to worry about this anymore everytime sunUC patches my servers.
Edited by: shen on Feb 20, 2008 5:32 PM

Here it is
# pkginfo -l SUNWCsmap SUNWlvm SUNWCwbem SUNWCwsdk SUNWwbpro SUNWfsmgtu
   PKGINST: SUNWfsmgtu
      NAME: Solaris Local File System Management APIs (usr)
CATEGORY: system
      ARCH: sparc
   VERSION: 1.0,REV=2005.01.09.23.05
   BASEDIR: /
    VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC: Solaris Local File System Management APIs (usr)
    PSTAMP: on10-adms-patch20071214193019
INSTDATE: Feb 21 2008 12:02
   HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS: completely installed
     FILES:        8 installed pathnames
                   5 shared pathnames
                   5 directories
                   1 executables
                 283 blocks used (approx)
   PKGINST: SUNWwbpro
      NAME: WBEM Providers (usr)
CATEGORY: system
      ARCH: sparc
   VERSION: 2.0,REV=2005.01.09.23.05
   BASEDIR: /
    VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
      DESC: Solaris WBEM Providers (usr)
    PSTAMP: on10-adms-patch20071214193040
INSTDATE: Feb 21 2008 12:03
   HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS: completely installed
     FILES:       72 installed pathnames
                  15 shared pathnames
                  15 directories
                   5 executables
                5051 blocks used (approx)
ERROR: information for "SUNWCsmap" was not found
ERROR: information for "SUNWlvm" was not found
ERROR: information for "SUNWCwbem" was not found
ERROR: information for "SUNWCwsdk" was not found
#4 packages are missing.
Are they supposed to be installed?
We run Solaris 10 update 3.
# more /etc/release
                       Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC
           Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                           Assembled 14 November 2006
#Our standard Solaris installation is "Entire Distribution plus OEM support".

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Hello again Shen,
After I got your email I went back through your files and did an internal search on the breaking of classpath and java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError error. I found a case that had similar error messages and the root cause was determined to be the order of the patch installation.
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===
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