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Old 11-28-2012
Help : Console hung in the middle of patching

I am patching a Solaris server with the latest Oracle OS patches. Console is hung in between and I am not able to see anything. I know that patching process happens in background. So, patching is going on. I am afraid how am I supposed to know if the patching has finished, so that I can do a gratious boot in order to get platform updated.

It's V240 server with ILOM coonfigured.

Immediate help is much appreciated !
# 2  
Old 11-29-2012
I have seen this happen before (but not on a V240).

Oracle/Sun don't seem to warn you most of the time that an out of date OBP/hypervisor, etc can cause a crash/hang during application of a patchset.

If you need to crash the system (STOP-A) and reset, followed by normal fsck, etc, you could then run the whole patchset again. It will 'skip' the patches already applied.

If it crashes/hangs again then you need to look at OBP versions, etc.

Here's an earlier thread...............

t2000 Sol10 installation failure
# 3  
Old 12-01-2012
Reset the console (not server). Once sc comes back, connect server again and check if patchadd commands are still working in ps -ef.
Alternatively, you can check logs in /var/sadm that will tell you where your patch installation is reached.
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