I was installing Solaris-10 Recommended patch Cluster and it came out without installling all patches. I gave a rebooted and tried installing it again, but it seems some lock or something is prevenventing to install further patches. I am not able to figure out and I am struck in between
root@prod_teledb03 # ls -l
total 870
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 57128 May 3 18:56 10_Recommended.README
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 104385 May 3 18:56 10_Recommended.html
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7625 May 3 18:56 Copyright
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 18775 May 3 18:56 LEGAL_LICENSE.TXT
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 101949 May 3 18:56 installcluster
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 101949 May 3 18:56 installpatchset
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3450 May 3 18:56 patch_order
drwxr-xr-x 347 root root 7168 May 3 18:56 patches
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4930 May 3 18:56 patchset.conf
root@prod_teledb03 # ./installcluster --s10patchset
ABORT: This Recommended Patchset version is already installed.
root@prod_teledb03a #
If somebody can quickly help me, I would appreciate.
What does your patch log file say happened? It should be located under /var/sadm/install_data.
It seems, it was expecting newer version of EMC powerpath
Approved patches will be installed in this order:
144500-19
Checking installed patches...
Executing prepatch script...
An incompatible version of EMC PowerPath is installed on this system,
application of the kernel patch aborting.
A fix from EMC will be required first, before this kernel patch can be
applied. For the latest information, please refer to ETA emc275344 on
https://powerlink.emc.com
The prepatch script exited with return code 1.
Patchadd is terminating.
----
patchadd exit code : 15
application of 144500-19 skipped : prepatch returned non-zero exit code
finish time : 2013.08.24 23:45:23
FINISHED : application of 144500-19
However, when I ran it manually with patchadd command, it installed successfully and patching went fine.
Hi,
Current scenario says, before running install patchcluster you should upgrade the EMC version or you may exclude this particular patch from running. Not 100% sure but you may read the "readm" file and you will get some options not to check the compatibility before applying patch.
Thanks,
Debasish
Hi guys,
My two cents:
http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
We've been using PCA for years now with over 200+ Solaris 8 (back in the days) 9 and 10 with great success. I would recommend it since we we're able to save ourselves from a lot of pains like the one you experienced.
Just sayin' 