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Old 07-31-2006
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.

Thanks,
# 2  
Old 07-31-2006
You probably should add where the boot fails and what error message you are getting. "Can't boot" isn't very descriptive.
# 3  
Old 07-31-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by saif
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.

Thanks,

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.
# 4  
Old 07-31-2006
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.
# 5  
Old 08-01-2006
Thanks, it worked!!!
removing the patches worked.

Thanks,
# 6  
Old 08-01-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
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. Smilie
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