SUMMARY: More 4.0F PK8 patchkit installation woes

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:26:42 +0000
To: "'tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov'" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>

 Greetings,

 Thanks to those who replied - Iain Barker, Pat O'Brien, and especially John
Lanier.

 It seems the problem (i.e. that of long list of complaints from dupatch
with PK8) is not particularly unusual. Although there is a suspicion that a
vrestore may not behave entirely properly with permissions, this doesn't
always explain why this kit behaves this way.

 The solution is to run a baseline, and override the dupatch exclusion of
the patches (assuming you are fairly certain that they are being excluded
for no good reason, as I was).

 John kindly sent me the allverify program to highlight/correct permissions
and ownerships
in the system and also compared my kernel with another 4.0F PK8 kernel which
showed very minimal diffs, suggesting that I need not be too concerned that
what I have is braindamaged in some way.
He pointed out that if I need to revert to PK7, then I should do so from
backups, as the manual
override in baselining makes patch backout complicated.

 Thanks all,

Lindsay

> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> Friends,
>
> I recently resolved a problem through this list for
> installing PK8 to
> 4.0F.
>
> Moving on to a second system (also 4.0F) however showed
> different problems.
> I removed all the so-called 'CSP' patches in readiness for
> the kit (as I had
> on my first machine). Now his time the baseline process
> displayed a lot of
> problems in the stage where it checks for files 'changed or
> from unknown
> sources'.
>
> It picked up dozens of files from all the standard system
> areas - /usr/lbin, /sbin, /sys/BINARY,
> /usr/bin, /usr/ccs, /usr/lib, /usr/sbin
>
> These were all determined as causing problems for Patch 1493
> (security
> patch).
>
> I decided to bite the bullet and enable the patch anyway since I have
> definitely *not* changed
> all those files. Thankfully the whole patchkit installed as
> it should!
>
> I can only think that these files were picked up because I
> recovered the
> root filesystem from a vdump backup earlier this year when
> the system disk
> went pear-shaped. I did a standard vrestore from tape to
> recover the disk.
> Has anyone else seen this effect?
>
> It's not urgent - but I'm interested to know why. I'll summarise.
>
> Cheers
>
> Lindsay
>
> Lindsay Wakeman
> Senior Analyst/Programmer, Applications Development South
> The British Library
> lindsay.wakeman@bl.uk

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