Solaris 8 Problem After Patches Installed update...

From: Gene Siepka (gsie44@tsg.cbot.com)
Date: Wed Nov 05 2003 - 14:53:52 EST


This is a resend, since my original post never made it to the list...
Kind of important since Sun in their infite wisdom still has the patch
available on Sunsolve.

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:19 pm, Gene Siepka wrote:

> I actually just got bit by this... I called Sun they flat out told me
> there is a bug in patch 108993-29. I had to back it out, but first back out
> patch 109326-11.(Dependency)
>
> They told me they found the bug yesterday, after it got put into the on
> 8_Recommended Bundle on Friday.
>
> -Gene
>
> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:56 pm, John Elser wrote:
> > Thanks to WC Jones and the others that replied to my original e-mail
> > which is below.
> >
> > After trying a few things, I simply did a patchrm on three of the patches
> > that were installed. The patches causing me the problem were: 109148-26
> > and 108994-29, 109327-11. I'm not sure which one or all of them that
> > were causing the problem. But, because of the fact that the problem
> > corrupted the root file system every time I tried to shutdown the system,
> > I didn't really have the time to find out which patch was causing the
> > problem.
> >
> > Thanks again for the help!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Friday, I installed the Recommended and Security patches to a x86
> > Solaris 8 system. After the patches were installed, I did a reconfigure
> > boot. This morning, when I try to shutdown the system, I get this error
> > message:
> >
> > # Shutdown -y -g0 -i6
> > ld.so.1: /sbin/init: fatal: relocation error: file
> > /etc/lib/nss_files.so.1: symbol__nsl_fopen: referenced symbol not found
> >
> > I couldn't find the exact message with a google search, but one close to
> > this suggested to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib. Before setting the
> > env variable, this variable was set to nothing. After setting it, I was
> > able to get a little further in the shut down process, but then the
> > system complained giving almost the exact same message expect it was
> > looking for "/sbin/uadmin" instead of "/sbin/init".
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