Kernel Patch 118822-20 will not fully apply.
An attempt was made to patch118822-20. It will download and it says that it will be installed at reboot. I followed the prompts religiously to say yes and please restart.
When it comes back up, the updatemanager states that it will be applied at reboot. I raninit 6.
It always states that a reboot will apply it. I ran theshowrev -p and it was not applied.
I gave up and did the manual processes. I followed the single user mode from scratch. I ranpatchadd 118822-20. I also shut it down again to the eeprom and ranboot -r. It showed up in the kernel boot. It reconfigured the devices.
When I ran updatemanager again, it shows that it would be applied at reboot. If I ran "check updates" again, it still shows that it would be installed with reboot. I ran the commandsmpatch analyze and it shows no patches are required. The graphical display should have refreshed.
# 1
The issue with it not installing automatically on reboot sounds like the known bug caused by 121086-01, which is supposedly fixed in 121086-02 (out soon).
Theres a work around discussed in various threads in the forum.
The discrepancy between update manager and smpatch is a different problem though. Another one for the list :-).
I presume that a uname -a is now showing the correct kernel rev..
# 2
The workaround of creating the hard links:
/etc/rcS.d/K51installupdates
/etc/rcS.d/S51installupdates
/etc/rc0.d/K51installupdates
did fix the situation with the patch 121086-01 symptoms
I tried to install beaucoup patches (15) requiring a reboot. It worked as expected. There are no more patches to apply. I did get a message saying that there is a read analysis problem when it checks for graphical updates now.When I ran "smpatch analyze", it correctly reported that there is nothing to apply. This is an old problem of the annoyance kind.
When the patch 121086-01 patch comes out, I hope that it will fix or write over any of the three hard links that were established to the script
/etc/init.d/installupdates
The people (Sun gurus and regular users) who have reported patch problems to this forum have been very helpful.
