SUMMARY: Problems patching sun Blade 1000

Hi,

sorry for the late summary, but I waited to be "sure" that the problem is really
fixed... 

Thanks to Scott Howard and Ted John for a fast answer.

Scott pointed out, that by checking the directory
/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcsr/save/111433-02 for the file "undo.Z" I'd be able to check
if the patch has been installed with or without option -d. Since there was an
undo.Z, I tried "patchrm 111433-02" and.... it worked. Don't ask me why my
colleague had difficulties with this.

Ted comment on the described behaviour of our Blade which was the reason I
wanted to patch the kernel anyway. He proposed to check the powerd
configuration, /etc/power.conf. Though the standard configuration does not
autoshutdown or suspend the machine, we completely disabled powerd. 

Since applying patch 108528-15 (not the newst one, I know) and diabling the
power management, we had had no lookups or spontaneous reboots, Hooray!

Here is the original post:

  Dear list members,

  we recently bought a Blade 1000. The preinstalled Solaris 8 has the
  kernel patch 111433-02 installed, which is needed for Blades if the
  patch 108528-08 or older is installed. That is the case.

  Since the machine runs quite unstable --- spontaneous reboots after idle
  periods
  --- I decided to get the newest revision of 108528. Unfortunately, I
  can't install it, because 111433-02 has to be backed out, but a patchrm
  just produces the following error message:

    Patch 111433-02 was installed without backing up the original
    files. It cannot be backed out.

  So the question is: what do I do now? Is it safe to force the
  installation of 108528? Or do I have to reinstall the whole OS? Is there
  a way to remove the files of 111433-02 manually?

  thanks in advance, regards, Levent

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 Levent Demiroers                kaa.desy.de/people/Demiroers.html
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