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Can not boot after patching.

Last night I installed some patches by using update manager on my solaris 10 on AMD 64. Now I cannot boot. It is keep failing. I am able to go to failsafe and I am able ot update the boot archieve file but I am not sure what to do after this. I think it is not boot problem, I think my kernel is messed up. Is ther any way I can back out of these patches. If so, can I do it by apply date since I do not remember which patch is causing this problem.

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You probably should add where the boot fails and what error message you are getting. "Can't boot" isn't very descriptive.
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Last night I installed some patches by using update manager on my solaris 10 on AMD 64. Now I cannot boot. It is keep failing. I am able to go to failsafe and I am able ot update the boot archieve file but I am not sure what to do after this. I think it is not boot problem, I think my kernel is messed up. Is ther any way I can back out of these patches. If so, can I do it by apply date since I do not remember which patch is causing this problem.

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You can use pkgrm to remove patches.
You can see all your patches you applied by running ls -lart /var/sadm/patch. Make sure you remove them in the reverse order.
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patchrm and not pkgrm is used to remove a patch, however if the patch was installed using patchadd -d then it's a reinstall, because it won't have backed up the changed files.
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Thanks, it worked!!!

removing the patches worked.

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patchrm and not pkgrm is used to remove a patch, however if the patch was installed using patchadd -d then it's a reinstall, because it won't have backed up the changed files.
Oh yeah, that is what I meant.
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