Solaris 10 U4 and kernel patches

When I install a fresh U4 machine, I then (as I always do) apply the recommended patch cluster. U4 has kernel patched to 120011-14. In the patch cluster, there are kernel patches 118833-36 and also 120011-14. When I run the patch cluster, it installs 118833-36! Isn't this older than the kernel on there? Shouldn't both 118833-36 and 120011-14 BOTH not install as the kernel is already at level 120011-14. The cluster gets to 118833-36 installs that and then of course every patch after that one fails as the machine is waiting for a reboot.

KJP 137138-09 should be ok with cpquary3 driver 1.9.1. KJP 137138 introduced new feature which does not allow misaligned pointer mutexes to work and panics the system. with revision 07 SUN introduced a new environment variable as a for applications which cannot be ported easily "6729759 need to accommodate non-8-byte-aligned mutexes".
This is documented in alert 244606 "The resolution for OpenSolaris releases sets _THREAD_LOCKS_MISALIGNED to 0. This is to ensure that any faulty applications fail and are identified. To allow such applications to continue to work on OpenSolaris releases based upon snv_96 or later, the environment variable _THREAD_LOCKS_MISALIGNED must be set to 1." For this to work you need to have revision 09 of this KJP applied.
Can you post the stack trace so i can have a look at it. I guess you have another application which uses unaligned mutexes.
A pkginfo of the cpquary3 package would also be useful.
-Marco

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