SUMMARY: Problem with patch 101318-50

From: Nick Murray (nmurray@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 13 1994 - 00:52:50 CDT


The consensus was that the patch is bad (Sun UK have removed the patch from
their archive). Most respondants recommended backing out to revision -45.
Unfortunately this revision breaks syslogd, so I use the syslogd from revision
42 of the patch. Hardly a supported configuration but I've run it trouble
free for over a month.

Thanks to -
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worsham@com.aer (Robert D. Worsham)
sjk@COM.KaPRE.snowleopard (Scott Kamin)
grs@com.claircom (Gregg Siegfried)
Hua-Pei Chen <hpc@us.ca.sf.well>
hkatz@edu.nyu.med.nucmed (Henry Katz)
brossard@ch.epfl.siisun (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
boenning@de.fhg.igd (Dirk Boenning)
J.N.Curran@uk.ac.reading
russ@com.ebasco.prin (Russ Bebb - 452-0130)
Trevor.Watson@uk.co.sun-microsystems
grs@com.claircom (Gregg Siegfried)
Tim Perala <tperala@edu.umn.d>
Phil Antoine <antoine@EDU.Duke.RadOnc>
Tim Perala <tperala@edu.umn.d>

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Hi,
        Yesterday I obtained (from Sun UK's ftp patch server) patch 101318-50.
I installed this patch on a SparcServer 1000, and within 5 minutes of booting
the machine panics with the message:

Panic: Deadlock condition detected: cycle in blocking chain

 This happened 3 times until I took the machine down and backed the patch out
to revision 45. We have another machine (SS 1+) which has most of the same
patches installed, but it doesn't panic.

 From SunSolve this message corresponds to several bugid's including 1168155,
but the bug reports don't mention any patches. I have searched through the Sun
newsgroups but to no avail.

 Has anyone seen this before? Is the patch bad? Is it a problem with my OS,
hardware or a conflict with other patches installed?

Setup : SparcServer 1000, 192Mb RAM, Prestoserve, Online DiskSuite, Solaris 2.3

Patches: 101317-09 101318-50 101327-06 101331-03 101344-08 101347-01 101362-15
         101377-11 101384-05 101415-02 101416-02 101418-01 101428-09 101448-01
         101484-03 101489-04 101494-01 101495-01 101500-03 101512-07 101513-02
         101514-01 101520-01 101533-03 101543-01 101546-01 101560-01 101572-01
         101574-03 101575-02 101581-01 101605-01 101613-01 101615-02 101620-01
         101642-01 101647-03 101649-02 101654-02 101681-01 101694-01 101714-01
         101731-01 101739-01

Thanks in advance,

Nick Murray
Computer Officer
Department of Computing Science
Abereen University
Scotland

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