Solaris Restart Update Failed
I'm running Solaris 10 on a Sun Ultra 5, and I was running Update Manager. After selecting restart to install the restart updates I watched while the system when into single user mode and then started installing the "Restart Needed" updates. It seems to hang on this one update 119578-30.
Does anyone know if there is some magic configuration file somewhere which contains the list of restart updates so I can delete this one from the list? The Sun Documentation is utterly devoid of information on any details of the Update Manager process. Also, Update Manager is hardly a robust service.
Cheers, Eric
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Eric-the-K] at [2007-11-26 11:43:14]
# 1
I am having exactly the same problem on my V250... right now.
I know the list of patches to be installed are in the file in /var/sadm/spool/disallowed_patch_list
I suppose you can delete the patch from there and then reboot.
I want to know if I can just power-off the machine and reboot? Will it corrupt anything on the machine? I had a bad experience last year when applying a patch like this and my whole /etc directory became corrupt.
# 2
Ive had problems with that patch in the past.
The prepatch script tries to shutdown fmd before patching.
But in the state where the patch gets installed, the svcadm call hangs.
If thats the problem you are hitting, then svcadm will show up in the process list
So the trick is to manually do a svcadm disable -t fmd before doing the shutdown.
To get it out of the "hung" state, just kill the svcadm process and the patch install will fail
and the patching will proceed without that patch.
# 3
Robert,thanks for that, I actually just found that out by reading the log file in the /var/sadm/spool directory and its last line mention, waiting for fmd to stop...thanks anyway.
