Re: Solaris 8 - Kernel Patches Not Updating 64-bit Files

On Jul 27, 3:24 pm, Doug Summers <dsumme...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently took over support of a large group of Solaris 8 machines. I
tried installing the latest (7/24) recommended patches as 'uname -a'
showed kernel release 117350-02. After rebooting the kernel was still
showing 117350-02 even though the patch cluster installed 117350-47.

After debugging I found that (since the 117350-02 patch) the newer
kernel patches are only updating the 32-bit files and skipping the
64-bit ones. Does this make any sense? The system is running fine on the
64-bit version of the 117350-02 patch.

Since the 02 patch the 18, 45, & 46 patches have been installed before
my time so I don't know how they were installed.

I have seen it where the uname -a and showrev (no options) show
different levels of kernels. I never looked at the 64 versus 32 bit
angle. In some cases the admin simply did not do an init 6 after
patching in single-user but instead typed a control-d to go on up into
multi-user. In the other cases, there really appeared to be a
mismatch and we had to back out the patches(in reverse order) up to
the kernel patch and reapply them again. Do an ls -ltr /var/sadm/
patch to see the patches that will have to be removed. Your problem
may be somewhat different.

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