SUMMARY Re: Solaris 2 mandatory patches

From: Mark S. Anderson (anderson@neon.mitre.org)
Date: Sat Sep 25 1993 - 16:20:42 CDT


Original question:

> Someone mentioned recently that Sun has designated certain patches as
> 'mandatory' for Solaris 2. Before that, I was not aware that Sun has
> done this. Now I am faced with the need to get Solaris 2.1 running on
> an LX. Can someone please tell me what those patches are?

Summary:

I received 11 replies. Everybody said to forget Solaris 2.1 and use 2.2
instead, because it is a lot less buggy, and performs better. Solaris 2.3
is scheduled to be announced in the middle of October (1993), so we will
wait until then to upgrade.

The mandatory patches list that is available is for Solaris 2.2 (not 2.1).

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see@uebemc.siemens.de (Seeger Michael) Iand others) sent the following patch
list which he found on ftp.uu.net:

-------------[contents of "Mandatory-Patch-List" follows] -----------------

Hi all,

Here's some info about the patches for Solaris 2.2 directly from a SUN tech :

                                Solaris 2.2 Patch Report
                                     as of 29Jul93

                (Wide Document, use 'enscript -r <filename>' to print this)

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Totals:
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Total Patches: 57

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Notes:
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This report is generated to provide a summary list of available patches
for Solaris 2.2 OS. There will be regular updates of this report to
ensure visibility within Customer Service of latest 2.2 patches.

Under "Mandatory Patches" are patches that are considered most important
especially for large configuration MP systems.

In some cases a newer version of a released patch may be listed in the
"Pending Patches" section. These are listed for reference but are not
counted in patch total. All pending patches listed are undergoing final
testing and verification. Until they are formally released, pending
patches are not generally available except to specific escalated cases.

Except for pending patches, all listed patches should be available via
local patch database servers or access services.

Any general questions should be send to patch-manager@raid.corp.

Any major customer issues related to these patches should be directed
into normal support channels and escalated if necessary.


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Mandatory Patches:
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Patch-ID# 100985-04
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: Jumbo patch for libc and other associated fixes
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1113040 1121164 1121751 1130394 1114167

Patch-ID# 100992-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: streams related panics involving local transport drivers
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1121031 1110027

Patch-ID# 100999-21
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: jumbo patch for fixes to kernel/unix & NFS driver
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1119267 1121146 1123874 1124210 1126184 1129464 1129087 1113596 1123266 1130848 1127302 1122420 1117034 1115068 1131435 1133751 1123178 1126165 1123855 1132273 1131580 1123435 1122465 1132866 1123762 1134196 1134196 1127070 1103091 1137685

Patch-ID# 101014-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for usr/lib/libsocket
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1124510 1122704 1127186

Patch-ID# 101027-04
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for /kernel/drv/tcp
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1120065 1127396 1121957 1084913 1124247 1122464

[David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk> sent the same list with this correction:
"Further to my earlier reply: I've just realised I sent you an incorrect
patch number. "101027" has been obsoleted by "101018". Sorry for that.
(I was copying from Sun's original notice to us, which had got it wrong,
and had forgotten about tripping over it myself last week!)"]

Patch-ID# 101031-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: The file descriptor limit is too low on inetd
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1112111

Patch-ID# 101090-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes security hole in expreserve
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1134063

Patch-ID# 101109-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes problems with ldtermclose() & ptmclose()
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1130226 1133037 1129615


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Other Non-Mandatory Patches:
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SunOS 5.2 Released Patch List:
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Patch-ID# 100982-02
Synopsis: Sun0S 5.2: fixes for kernel/fs/fifofs
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1126986 1116568

Patch-ID# 100983-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes and improvements for multi-thread application use
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1114100 1117554 1125344 1134191 1134064

Patch-ID# 100991-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: This provides a fix to a variety of panics induced by alm2
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1124866 1123603 1124711 1124801

Patch-ID# 100997-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: Direct Xlib 2.0 dumps core
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1124154 1124194 1125525 1125584 1126185 1126870

Patch-ID# 101016-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: listen doesn't process all requests
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1128009

Patch-ID# 101018-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: patch to /kernel/drv/ip to fix default route problem
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1119370

Patch-ID# 101020-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: The xp_netid field is not initialized in makefd_xprt() upon creation.
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1104088

Patch-ID# 101022-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes to rexd and NIS/NIS+
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1124497 1123372 1110837 1080235 1126829 1128078 1116175

Patch-ID# 101025-03
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: Jumbo patch for lp fixes
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1117241 1112940 1120892 1075755 1091638 1128229 1127154 1119455 1100070 1130512 1125900 1120403 1112528 1129389 1132618 1111420 1132877 1132445 1132530 1132534 1132877 1133272 1133717 1103421 1134692 1115798 1128488 1123879 1123879 1135911 1101969 1123325

Patch-ID# 101028-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: system may hang due to memory leak in hsfs
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1120625

Patch-ID# 101036-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: The statfs() call returns incorrect f_bsize
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1121173

Patch-ID# 101037-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: in.ftpd does not correctly verify user's shell
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1112877

Patch-ID# 101039-05
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: Jumbo patch for login, ufs, and quota bugs
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1123589 1120380 1123860 1098361 1121098 1119046 1124455 1120423 1129145 1134684 1121145 1134684

Patch-ID# 101046-03
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: csh bugs with multibyte chars, command substitution, double quotes
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1125782 1132160 1111547

Patch-ID# 101049-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: access denied error when adding/deleting a client if user in sysadmin grp
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1129229

Patch-ID# 101050-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: sysmem routine causes hang with 2GB of phsical memory
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1127771

Patch-ID# 101051-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: ar core dumps if object filename over 56 characters
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1130028

Patch-ID# 101052-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: point patch for slow link-editing problem
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1108453

Patch-ID# 101054-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: tape device, FSF followed by a BSF does not work
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1128481

Patch-ID# 101055-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: Fix to /etc/system to support X25 and FDDI
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1112510

Patch-ID# 101061-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: In ksh, the syntax does not always work correctly
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1126921

Patch-ID# 101062-03
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: Various BCP runtime library fixes
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1131365 1120416 1121675 1118250 1136583 1136129

Patch-ID# 101077-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: sendmail: can hang; problems with metasymbol and NIS
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1127546 1133654

Patch-ID# 101086-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for kernel/drv/iommu & kernel/drv/sbi
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1125743 1124673

Patch-ID# 101095-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for the libaio library
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1121430 1124799 1125120 1133572

Patch-ID# 101096-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: rup output often shows localhost as well as the host's real name
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1114934

Patch-ID# 101112-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: find: "no action" error with parentheses; excessive messages
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1106778 1089219

Patch-ID# 101115-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes kernel memory leak in sockmod driver
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1131131

Patch-ID# 101122-02
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for the packaging utilities
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1131708 1126855 1129521 1136784

Patch-ID# 101143-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fd on SS10 does not return any result code to user.
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1121433

Patch-ID# 101157-01
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: rquotad not aware of added files
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1136749


OpenWindows 3.2 Released Patch List:
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Patch-ID# 100989-02
Synopsis: OpenWindows 3.2: bringing up a pinned menu before menu_show() cause core dump
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1126998, 1127086

Patch-ID# 101005-01
Synopsis: OpenWindows 3.2: window height calculation is incorrect for Asian locales
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1119847

Patch-ID# 101006-01
Synopsis: OpenWindows 3.2: problem in Audiocontrol with window height and overlapping
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1119847, 1122838

Patch-ID# 101012-01
Synopsis: OpenWindows 3.2: problem numbering the attached files in attachements window (ko,zh,zhTW)
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1121681

Patch-ID# 101019-01
Synopsis: OpenWindows 3.2: Props does not search for locale-specific help.
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1127961


Graphics Released Patch List:
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Patch-ID# 100910-03
Synopsis: Solaris 2.2: XGL Runtime Library fixes (unstripped versions)
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1116397,1127009,1124054,1130933,1131358,1131816,1136047,1136053

Patch-ID# 100996-01
Synopsis: Solaris 2.2, XIL 1.0: runtime multi-bug patch
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1121493, 1121494, 1127152, 1127273, 1129390

Patch-ID# 101057-03
Synopsis: Solaris 2.2: XGL Runtime Library fixes
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1127009,1124054,1130933,1131358,1131816,1136047,1136053


Solaris 2.2 Pending Patches (Not yet released):
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Patch-ID# T100999-22 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes to kernel/unix & NFS driver
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1119267 1121146 1123874 1124210 1126184 1129464 1129087 1113596 1123266 1130848 1127302 1122420 1117034 1115068 1131435 1133751 1123178 1126165 1123855 1132273 1131580 1123435 1122465 1132866 1123762 1134196 1134196 1127070 1103091 1137685 1134886 1127446 1124135

Patch-ID# T101014-04 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: Solaris 2.2: fixes for usr/lib/libsocket
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1124510 1122704 1127186 1131237 1095764

Patch-ID# T101025-05 (Preliminary Patch - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for lp system
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1117241 1112940 1120892 1075755 1091638 1128229 1127154 1119455 1100070 1130512 1125900 1120403 1112528 1129389 1132618 1111420 1132877 1132445 1132530 1132534 1132877 1133272 1133717 1103421 1134692 1115798 1128488 1123879 1123879 1135911 1101969 1123325 1137632 1122613

Patch-ID# T101039-06 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for login & ufs quotas
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1123589 1120380 1123860 1098361 1121098 1119046 1124455 1120423 1129145 1134684 1121145 1134684 1136965

Patch-ID# T101107-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: Solaris 2.2: Patch for libcursesw
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1125680

Patch-ID# T101135-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: xdm does not support xdmcp, nor local passwords
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1102326

Patch-ID# T101141-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: add -U option to fdformat
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1135252

Patch-ID# T101148-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.1: sunview command tool and ttysubwindows broken
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1131321

Patch-ID# T101144-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes for usr/bin/rdist
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1128709

Patch-ID# T101150-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: OWN 3.1: xview 3.1 jumbo patch
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1129722 1122353 1122244 1068172

Patch-ID# T101153-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes problem where "at" and "batch" corrupt user's commands
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1113572

Patch-ID# T101156-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: fixes corruption problems with usr/bin/mail
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1130545

Patch-ID# T101165-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: OWN 3.2: olwm imposes a limit on the number of submenus in a rootmenu
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1127353

Patch-ID# T101168-01 (Preliminary Patch Only - Not Yet Released)
Synopsis: SunOS 5.2: Patch to volume management to support WABI
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1136914

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[end of Mandatory Patch List]

Thanks to everybody who replied:

mhill@lesol1.dseg.ti.com (Mike Hill)
rlg@ida.org (Randy Garrett)
hushing@gdwest.gd.com (Sumner Hushing)
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
Pat Cain (Denver) <pjc@denver.ssds.COM>
kevin@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
see@uebemc.siemens.de (Seeger Michael)
David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
griffin@lehman.com (al griffin)
heiser@tdwr.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)

Mark Anderson
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