Below are the prechecks that need to be completed before we start the oracle rac installation. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Solaris 10 not mounting nfs via etcvfstab on reboot. With the release of the oracle solaris 10 10 08 operating system, oracle solaris live upgrade is integrated with the oracle solaris zfs. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. After applying solaris 10 811 update 10 solaris os kernel patch 14744004 or superseding patches 14744005 or 14744006 on solaris sparc or 14744104 on solaris 10 x86 on a system with swap device under vxvms control as an encapsulated device, the system can recursively panic with the following stack trace displayed on the console. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. This article documents several general configuration parameters that apply to any solaris environment. For solaris 10 hosts booted off of zfs root pools, the system will be.
Solaris 10 server patching linux administration blog. Solaris 10 system admin part i sol100 5 day this 5day course covers the essential administration tasks for sun system administrators. The partition you will use for the copy must not appear in use in etcvfstabin. It covers all basic workstation administration functions, with full handson experience at all stages. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. Today i am going to show you 2 things1 download patchset from oracle support and apply it on solaris 10 machine. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers.
Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. Solaris 10 system can panic if swap device is encapsulated by. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Solution whats best partitioning practices for solaris 10. Solaris operating system version 10 305 and later information in this document applies to any platform. Solaris 11 os patching with svm in this article we are going to discussing about installing solaris os patch bundle with svm solaris volume manager control root disk. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from showrev p.
Boot process failed and system goes back to ok prompt. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. I recently installed solaris 10 on my new t2000 and im trying to cleanup the unecessary crap. The vfstab only wants tabs and should only have seven entries. Modify etcvfstab in this case aetcvfstab to normal disk slice. Solaris 10 not mounting nfs via etcvfstab on reboot showing of 3 messages. In this example, mount options are ro readonly and soft. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch.
Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. An entry in the etcvfstab file has seven fields, which are described in the table below table 364 etcvfstab field descriptions. I think on solaris nfs mounts should be placed in etcdfsdfstab. Symptoms using the documented procedure for solaris to create an nfs file system that will mount at boot that etcvfstab field is yes results in failure to even attempt to mount the configured nfs filesystem upon boot. If you fill tmp, you essentially reduce the amount of available swap to 0. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. Solaris 11 os patching with svm solaris unix and linux. How to apply solaris patches on encapsulated root disk.
For information about these commands, see generic file system commands in addition to the name change, the. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. It looks like you have either spaces or one too many tabs at the end of the. As usual, weve released a patchset of all the patches contained in solaris 10 1 update 11. The other issue may have been that the swap file entry in etc vfstab.
Here is the correct way to split a solaris volume manager mirror prior to updating the. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in case of success. If var is part of the root partition, then relocating var to a separate partition would be a good solution. In the virtual file system architecture, the etcvfstab file provides default file system parameters used by the generic commands for file system management. Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 patch bundle for x86 systems. Starting with the solaris 10 106 release, the grub boot loader facilitates booting different operating systems installed on. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. Dont forget to take the backups of etcvfstab and etcsystem.
We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Sep 17, 2015 regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. The patch naming format in solaris 10 and prior releases is simple. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010. Now i would like to make an entry in the etcvfstab, but without mount at boot. The old solaris 8,9,10 way is still supported in solaris 11, but we need to add and entry to etcdfssharetab to make the nfs share persist across reboots. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Solaris 10 kernel patches 1474400414744104 and later revisions cause a panic in swapify on systems that have one of the following vxvm configurations. Use this procedure to mount nonzfs file systems at boot time unless legacy mount behavior is needed for some zfs file systems. Before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations. It looks like you have either spaces or one too many tabs at the end of the entry after the word no. Mar 11, 2019 solaris operating system version 10 305 and later information in this document applies to any platform. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Symptoms using the documented procedure for solaris to create an nfs file system that will mount at boot that etc vfstab field is yes results in failure to even attempt to mount the configured nfs filesystem upon boot. For example, if you were to patch a solaris 10 305 system with the latest recommended patch cluster, many of the patches relate to functionality introduced after solaris 10 305, and therefore, patches with the new functionality would fail to install. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find upd. Solaris 10 problem with nfs mount in etcvfstab after. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server.
And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find upd the unix and linux forums. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. The information is stored in a table with the following column headings. Solaris 10 problem with nfs mount in etcvfstab after reboot. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
For solaris live upgrade to work properly, the vfstab file on the active boot environment must have valid contents and must have an entry for the root file system. This article is an overview of best practice configuration. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os. Solaris 10 system can panic if swap device is encapsulated.
How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. The other issue may have been that the swap file entry in etcvfstab. Recovering space in var used for saved backout data from patches doc id 1005804. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun java. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches.
May 10, 20 solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. It does not specify a device to fsck or a fsck pass because its an nfs file system. For greater reliability, specify the hard mount option for readwrite nfs file systems. Posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. For more information about mounting zfs file systems, see managing zfs file systems in oracle solaris 11. I have to install some latest patches on my sparc machine running solaris 10. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems. The following example mounts the directory exportman from the system pluto as an nfs file system on mount point usrman. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. Upgrade sparc or x86 patches required for each oracle solaris release. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Specifies the file systems configuration of the new boot environment in the vfstab. I have an nfs client which has an entry like the following in etc vfstab.
For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a. Verify that the swap entry in the vfstab file has been set up correctly on the new. Recovering space in var used for saved backout data. How to add an entry to the etcvfstab file managing. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Here i have installed solaris on two nodes using zfs filesystem. There are many times that i need a sample etcvfstab around just as a reference when configuring a new solaris machine. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box.
This can lead to trouble, run out of physical ram, and new processes may not start. In this article, we will be doing prechecks for oracle 11gr2 rac installation on solaris 10. Find answers to solaris 10 problem with nfs mount in etcvfstab after reboot from the expert community at experts exchange. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail. A swap entry in the etcvfstab file is causing the upgrade to fail. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Oracle solaris live upgrade is a useful tool and strategy for minimizing downtime and risk when upgrading or patching systems. The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system.
We have traditional and live upgrade patching methods in solaris 10. Mounting file systems etcvfstab filethe etcvfstab field descriptions. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Not enough space solaris 10 by default places tmp on swap. Mar 22, 20 posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. Before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations to add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010 how can i uninstall the patch. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. This is good for speed, but not so good on a general purpose box where some applications may fill up tmp. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a valid support contract non gratis. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10.
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