Patch PHCO_25418

[Keely Jackson]

Good Morning

Having installed the latest version of Ignite (4.1.61) I need to install the pax patch PHCO_25418. For whatever reason (which I would dearly like to know!), the only two systems which do not have this patch already, are of course, production machines. Hence I do not have a system to test the it.

Has anybody had any problems installing this patch and can you confirm that as no reboot is required am I ok to just go for it?

The dependency PHKL_22677 (PHKL_19991's supercede) is installed.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Keely

[Jochen Heuer]

Hi Keely,

you should install this patch since Ignite uses pax for creating/extracting the archive and in this patch there have been some problems fixed with suid handling (from patchtext):

When using pax's copy mode, -rw, SUID/SGID bits are not
restored.
Example -- (current user is ville)

And yes, it does *NOT* require a reboot since it only installs 3 files (static binary, dynamic binary and the catalog file).

And it has a rating of 3 ...

Regards,

Jochen

[Armin Feller]

Hi,

please go the the patchdatabase in ITRC and look for the patch PHCO_25418. This patch has a lot of dependencies and you need an reboot because there are some kernle patches depending on PHCO_25418. But the patch has no warning, so installing this patch shouldn't impact your system negatife.

Regards ...
Armin

[T G Manikandan]

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PHCO_25418 requires:

PHKL_22677
Notes Reboot required after installation. Has special instructions. 232 2000/11/22 s700_800 11.00 fix of getdirentries, MVFS, rcp, mmap & IDS


PHKL_18543
Notes Fixes critical problem. Reboot required after installation. Has special instructions. 12148 1999/06/28 s700_800 11.00 PM/VM/UFS/async/scsi/io/DMAPI/JFS/perf patch


PHKL_20674
Notes Fixes critical problem. Reboot required after installation. Has special instructions. 175 1999/12/16 s700_800 11.00 fix VxFS unmount hang & MMF, sync panics


PHKL_20016
Notes Reboot required after installation. Has special instructions. 35 1999/10/05 s700_800 11.00 2nd CPU not recognized in G70/H70/I70


PHKL_17038
Notes Reboot required after installation. 41 1999/02/17 s700_800 11.00 Data Page Fault when field vmtrace'ng fix


PHCO_21187
21466 2000/06/15 s700_800 11.00 cumulative SAM/ObAM patch


PHCO_23651
Notes Fixes critical problem. 512 2001/03/23 s700_800 11.00 fsck_vxfs(1M) cumulative patch


PHKL_25475
Notes Fixes critical problem. Reboot required after installation. Has special instructions. 1078 2001/10/22 s700_800 11.00 PM cumulative patch


PHKL_21392
Notes Fixes critical problem. Reboot required after installation. Has special instructions. 139 2000/03/23 s700_800 11.00 VxFS performance, hang, icache DPFs

If you have all the software filesets then it should install just the fileset of this pax patch and reboot is not required
If one of the patches above mentioned is missing then it should be dependent on that whether reboot is required or not.

I downloaded and installed the patch which had all the pre-requisite patches as mentioned above.

The attachment is the swagent.log.As all the pre-requisite filesets were there no reboot required and the installation was successful.

[Jochen Heuer · Accepted solution]

Hi Keely,

if you have the dependency PHKL_22677 installed there are no further patches needed since all the dependencies of PHKL_22677 are already installed too ...

So no, there should not be a problem.

Regards,

Jochen

[T G Manikandan]

Yes,

Hueuer is right!

If you have PHKL_22677 installed then you can go ahead in installing this patch which should be okay without reboot.

make sure you check the swagent.log file during the installation analysis.

Also make sure you leave the default option (where the re-install filesets is not enabled)

thanks

[Keely Jackson]

Hi

I was pretty sure I would be ok, just wanted to double check.

Thanks.

cheers
Keely