Hello -
Thank you all for your responses.
Original question:
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I just tried installing patch kit #4. There are 68 subsets included in this
kit. dupatch crashed on subset # 65 because LMF stopped in the middle of
copying this subset. I may have accidentally run the wrong dupatch (I may
have run /usr/sbin/dupatch and not the one supplied with kit 4 though I
thought I had typed in the full, correct path). I then re-ran dupatch (the
correct one -- I'm sure) and it copied and configured the final 4 (#s 65 -
68) subsets. However, I didn't see any message saying the it was
configuring #s 1- 64. I then issued a setld -i|grep OSFPAT. Judging by the
output it looks like all the patches in this kit have been successfully
installed.
My question is this: if setld says a patch has been installed and I
determine that all the subsets of this patch kit are listed as 'installed'
then am I safe for this kit OR would I be better off uninstalling all the
patches and reinstalling? This machine isn't live yet -- we're supposed to
bring it online this Saturday -- so I can do whatever is necessary to make
this right. Once it's live it's much more difficult to straighten out any
problems.
Summary of responses:
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Basically the responses ranged from "you're probably ok" to "you're probably
best off deleting and reinstalling the patches". Since I want to minimize
the risks here I deleted the patches (pk1 and pk2 were installed by someone
other than myself and apparently were done 'not deletable' so dupatch
couldn't delete those patches but since I was only concerned with pk4 I
continued on), and reinstalled the patches. Everything seemed to go ok.
Detailed responses:
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To be safe, I would delete all the patches and then reinstall them.
My concern is that any merges that may have been necessary did not get
done.
I think the cleanest way would be to uninstall and reinstall the patch kit.
Try a 'setld -v OSFPAT....' to verify the installation of the patch of
which your are not sure the installation went OK. (I did this but some
people feel this may not be 100% reliable)
If that's what setld says, then you should be OK (that all the patches were
installed). You could take a look
in /var/adm/patch/log for some log files that will show you everything
that was going on.
(same person sent a follow-up e-mail)
I thought about it some more, and I'm not sure that I like this.
Thanks again!!
Andy Cohen
Oracle Database Administrator
Cognex Corporation
1 Vision Drive
Natick, MA 01760-2059
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Received on Fri Aug 11 2000 - 14:22:33 NZST