SUMMARY:System won't boot after patches

From: Russ Poffenberger (poffen@san-jose.ate.slb.com)
Date: Thu Sep 22 1994 - 20:56:53 CDT


Original message
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I just installed (at the request of our configuration management system vendor)
patches 101318-54 and 101344-11 to our SS-10 512MP system running Solaris 2.3.

Now the system will not boot. It prints the inital message, then the spinner
just hangs there.

The system is dead in the water, boot -r or boot -s don't work either.

What is the best way to recover (we should have backups if that is the only
resourse).
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Everybody suggested booting from CDROM and restoring the files replaced by
the patch, or restoring backup. I restored from backup and the system is
running again.

This is the last time I will try installing any patches without an alternate
boot disk. I can't believe that Sun would issue patches that are likely to
blow up a system.

Thanks to the following..

Gary Merinstein <gmerin@panix.com>
pallas@oclc.org (George Pallas)
Marco.Gaspar@staff.udg.mx (Marco A. Gaspar R.)
white@erim.org (Brian White)

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