SUMMARY: Solaris 9 sadness after patching today

The only response I received in the short time since I sent the message
out was from Mr. Tim Zenner who suggested adding debugging statements
to /etc/rc2:

Find the section that looks like this (note the S*, *not* K*):
--------------------------------
    for f in /etc/rc2.d/S*; do
        if [ -s $f ]; then
            case $f in
                *.sh)   .    $f ;;
                *)  /sbin/sh $f start ;;
            esac
        fi
    done
----------------------------------
Change it, adding the two echo lines like so:
----------------------------------
    for f in /etc/rc2.d/S*; do
        if [ -s $f ]; then
                echo "Entering $f"
            case $f in

Mr. Zenner also suggested adding sleep statements.

It turns out that the entire mess was a red herring.

I moved the computer from one place to another, which put it on a 
different switch.  It came up fine.  I then undid, one by one
each of the things I had previously done (put NIS back, arp/ip patch,
kernel patch, removed withdrawn patch and put other one in) with
a reboot in between and each time it came up just fine.

I then moved it back to its original place, power cycled the switch 
(an HP 2524) and it came up fine there too.

I then patched the rest of my machines and all is well.

So, the Solaris 9 patches are fine, but my switch was not.

"power cycle switches" goes on my routine tomorrow.

Cheers,
Zube
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers