Also, this forum is for issue with the sun update connection, patch manager, and patchpro software specifically and not for general patching and os related questions. 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. Creating and mounting oracle solaris file systems oracle. In a subdirectory of a mount point in the ufs root file system. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. Zfs file systems are mounted and unmounted automatically. Find answers to how to use the mount command on solaris 10 from the expert community at experts exchange. How to make mount point in solaris 10installing oracle. Possibly a memory issue or you need a firmware update for bios. Renaming a zone and changing the mountpoint marco milo zones are great, since they allow you to run and manage in isolated containers all of your application. Become a supporter make a contribution via paypalbitcoin. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Find the share that you want to mount from a server.
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. Like a point patch, an r patch is only appropriate for the customer for whom the patches have been delivered. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster this article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Product solaris 10 operating system bug id 6336467 date of resolved release 19jul2006 impact. Hi i have a mount point that is in production environment, and is currently filled up. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. It should be attached to your system through a hba, or some kind of fibrescsi cable. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. If you do not own the directory, you must perform the mount operation as the owner of the directory or as superuser. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10.
Is it possible to mount cifs onto solaris 10 server server. First,check the mount point who own it,also does that user has the permission to mount. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. After i discover the presented space, how do i go about adding this new space to existing mount point 9 replies. If you are mounting the slice 2 of the solaris 10 dvd which is lower than update6 10 08 then it has to be mounted as a ufs file system. 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.
Creating a mount point appropriate for use with the mount command to mount a filesystem, oracle, etc. I want to install oracle rac on solaris 10, using asm but i am new in it. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots at least solaris 10 5 09. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one. Solaris 10 live upgrade issue unix and linux forums. If using solaris zones, each zone should be configured to return a unique value for the serial number. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. I would like to patch the server by installing patch cluster on solaris 10 zones. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. A security vulnerability in solaris 10 may allow a local unprivileged user the ability to panic the system using the special net mount point or a similarly configured mount point which uses the hosts special map, creating a denial of service dos condition. Also, i am having an issue with an oracle implmentation on the system. 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. I want to use the cdrom but i cant see whats inside in the cd. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date.
Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010. How to check solaris release and default kernel version the. Solaris how to mount error mount point doesnt exists. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. At that point i can browse all data, but have no idea how to get the services started and server fully booted.
The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. The first argument to growfs the value passed to m is the mount point of the file system to grow. Weve been able to upgrade systems with nonglobal zones in the solaris 10 update releases for the past year, thanks to a particularly hacky solution based primarily on patches, since pkgadd and patchadd had already been made zoneaware even though the rest of the installation technologies werent. Identifies where to mount the file system for example, usr. Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it. I have fun fsck and it runs completely with no prompts or errors. The type of file system identified by the device to mount field. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched.
How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment on solaris10 10. Are there any 3rd party freeware tools for solaris 10 that. If invoked with no arguments, mount lists all the mounted file systems recorded in the mount table, etcmnttab. Description solaris 10 patches 14172103 or 14144409 sparc and 14172203 or 14144509 x86 may cause live upgrade lucreate1m to fail on a system configured with zfs root and a separate var file system. Hi after doing a live upgrade from solaris 10 update 8 to solaris 10 update 9 the alternate boot environment i created is no longer bootable. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. 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. If this device is coming from a san emc storage im assuming by the naming convention why are you trying to mount it via nfs. You cannot directly migrate unsupported zone configurations from a previous solaris 10. Hi all, i have an nfs server and nfs client both running on solaris 10 u5.
System use it to determinate the order of fsck at boot. This post addresses failures on network file system which result in a solaris 10 client being unable to mount remote filesystem on the nfs server. So i want to mount u0 directory on the disk volume devdskc2t0d0s2 1 i have created u0 directory by root user like. You would have to create your pool structure and stick to it or at least only add to it. Most filesystem mounting or unmounting is automated for a system at boot or shutdown, but there are times during system maintenance and working with nfs shares, for example, when manually unmounting a filesystem is important. Solaristm 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to. These patches are located in the varsadm patch directory on an installed system. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks mirrored with svm. A filesystem in solaris can be referenced by its device name e.
The password is cleared until first login is no longer an option in solaris 10. I recently needed to grow a solaris ufs file system, and accomplished this with the growfs1m utility. Sep 12, 20 weve recently moved to a monthly release cadence for solaris 10 os patches. Once the mount point has been created, you can manually mount the slice to the mount point by typing.
In this post will show you the data backup and recovery mechanism in oracle solaris 11. A local unprivileged user may be able to cause a denial of. I want to mount a san cifs share on a solaris 10 u11 server. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network. 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. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. To determine what version and transport of nfs is currently available, run.
Determining which file systems should be in the new boot environment. The device is not a root device for any boot environment. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. A 0 zero or a nonnumeric in this field indicates no. The nixcraft takes a lot of my time and hard work to produce. Mounting and unmounting oracle solaris file systems. Renaming a zone and changing the mountpoint oracle out. Patch not installing on solaris 10 oracle community.
Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. The mount points for the file systems are noted by using the m option. How to troubleshoot unable to mount nfs mount point. You can make a legacy ufs file system available by mounting it, which attaches the file system to the system directory tree at the specified mount point. To install or update package in solaris 11 from repo file offline just simple follow these steps. For backing up the data, you create snapshots, as well as use zfs sendreceive commands. How to installupdate package from iso file in solaris 11. Solution although this is a limitation in solaris 10 nonglobal zone there are 3 alternatives which you can use to overcome this. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria. It starts the automountd1m daemon if it finds any nontrivial entries in either local. By using the logging mount option, you enable a filesystem that is journalled on top of the atypical ufs type. How to make mount point in solaris 10installing oracle rac.
Verify that the networksmbclient service is enabled. Heres how you would add a hard drive to solaris 10, including the format, fdisk, partition, and then creation of the file system. Ensure that the resource file or directory is available from a server. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria that is, patches which address security or other critical issues. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. I have also tried running the command sbin mount a which seems to work in terms of mounting the entire filesystem.
Creating a new boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. Mounting and unmounting oracle solaris file systems oracle. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. The logging option is a very useful feature that unfortunately was not enabled by default till solaris 10. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. The second argument is the raw device that backs this mount point. Now for your problem, i think you try to use commands line and when it works you can reboot. A mount point is a directory to which the mounted file system is attached. I have an hp lefthand san, where i added 100gb to one of the volumes. The upgrade option updates the solaris software to the new release, preserving data, and saving as many modifications to the previous version of solaris software as possible. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release.
If everyone who reads nixcraft, who likes it, helps fund it, my future would be more secure. If the physical boot device cannot be determined, then names from the uname. The pass number used by fsck to decide whether to check a file system. For discovery to use patterns to find solaris computers, you must install sneep. The most reliable method for determining the release of the solaris os installed is. Mounting linux nfs shares in solaris 10 first, export a filesystem on your linux box add it to the exports file, and exportfs. For example, you cannot have two root file systems. How to mount the cdrom on solaris 10 without knowing the cdrom device name. Expanding extending a mount point slice im new to unix, sort of inherited this job. Hi people, i am a new user of unix, i want to ask a basic question. Check repository should be point to file which we change in step 2. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. There must be a mount point on the local system to mount a file system.
Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. May 19, 2009 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. If you delete a pool you cannot remove an old be, and theres no point in creating a new be off a new pool structure because once you change it, you cannot delete the old be. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. You must specify the appropriate mount point directories for the file systems on your system. If it is not leaving anything in messages it smells like memory. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
The system has the required patches 121430, and live upgrade was updated. Otherwise, discovery cannot find the serial number. Mar 15, 2015 in the following examples, u01 is the mount point directory used for the software, and u02 is the mount point directory used for the oracle data file directory. Overview of solaris patch types and dependencies oracle. How to mount a cifs share on a directory you own solaris. Hello we have a solaris 10 910 installed on an x86 physical server and want to migrate it to a solaris zone. The sendreceive commands can be used to save the backed up data snapshots on the local or remote machine. I found and info doc from oracle saying its not supported until solaris 11. Aug 28, 2006 so you can see why i need to ask for your help.
This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Browse other questions tagged oracle mount solaris 10 or ask your own question. This error is typically only seen when running in a solaris 10. Installing the latest version of live upgrade from the update 9 iso. How to find all available hds those which are used as well as unused for the mountpoint. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. Installing a solaris 10 update patch bundle to a system will update. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment. When the field contains a dash, the file system is not checked. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. For solaris 10, patches 14744024 sparc or 14744124 x86. Solaris liveupgrade is a nice feature of solaris, which lets one upgrade the currently running version of solaris to a new realease or patch it without the need to bring the system into single user mode for a more or less long time.
Now i would like to make an entry in the etcvfstab, but without mount at boot. Gather and analyze information to determine why a patchadd or patchrm session failed on systems that run the solaris os for sparc or x86 platforms. Of course, you first need to actually add the hard drive physically to the machine, im not going to cover that if you dont know how to do that then the rest of the information isnt going to help. To mount an nfs file system, the resource must be made available on the server by using the share command. Otherwise, each zone will return the same number causing issues with ci identification. Update current repository point to file repo download. As such you may find a better audiance for this issue in the solaris 10 forum. I am trying to determine patch levels and how long some solaris machines have been without patching in order to support triaging which systems to patch first. Is there a way to determine which processes are the blocked processes.