Solaris

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 !

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Oracle/Sun don't seem to warn you most of the time that an out of date OBP/hypervisor, etc can cause a crash/hang during application of a patchset.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

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.