Patch Bundle 03/2003 upgrade. PHKL_18543 concern

[Isaac Loven_3]

Hi all,
Its now October 2003, I want to update my 11.0 system with March 2003 support plus patch bundle.
I did a swinstall-> manage selection -> match what is on system, then "analyse". This produced a list of 75 partial or full patches.
Then I checked HP's web. It says that 5 of these patches in this bundle have warnings.
Q1 ) So I will not install these. Is that correct??
Q2 ) swinstall says it wants to partially install PHKL_18543. Is that OK?? I have read from forum that this patch is a very dangerous. Should I not load any of it either??
Thanks, Isaac

[KCS_1]

Hi,

These are only my opinions,

>> Q1 ) So I will not install these. Is that correct?? <<

In my case, I don't install the bad patches because they have some problem which had found from HP Patch Center.

>> Q2 ) swinstall says it wants to partially install PHKL_18543. Is that OK?? I have read from forum that this patch is a very dangerous. Should I not load any of it either?? <<

You should install partially some fileset from PHKL_18543 which needs before installing some patches in the system.
However, after done installation all of patches, you can remove the patch out of the system.


Thanks


- Patrick

[Steven E. Protter]

Stop:

swverify \* | grep PHKL_18543

swlist -l product | grep -i PHKL_18543

If PHKL_18543 is configured, and isntalled, do not under any circumstances re-install any port of PHKL_18543.

I find it hard to believe that an 11.00 system doesn't already have this patch installed. Its a requirement for so many patches, you wouldn't believe it.

If you reinstall PHKL_18543 it will corrupt a lot of your patches. Recovery for this mistake is painful and time consuming. HP recommend OS re-install but I know from experience how to avoid it. Trust me you don't want to know what I went through.

Q1) Do your patch install with the -x reinstall=false option so nothing will get re-installed but all 75 patches you need will go in.
Q2) Don't listen to swinstall without running the checks at the top of my post.

SEP

[Hoefnix]

If you reinstall the PHKL_18543 you will have to reinstall from scratch.
(I have experience, did this by mistake 2 weeks ago)

After reinstall the system is not able to build a new kernel, so when you want to change some parameter manual you can not build a new kernel.