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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2008.0589 -- [Solaris]
With Certain Solaris 10 patches installed, svccfg may remove External
Dependencies and leave the system Unbootable
9 June 2008
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: svccfg
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Existing Account
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-66-235681-1
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Solution Type: Sun Alert
Solution 235681 : With Certain Solaris 10 patches installed,
svccfg(1M) may remove External Dependencies and leave the system
Unbootable
Bug ID: 6630105
Product
Solaris 10 Operating System
Date of Workaround Release: 20-May-2008
Date of Resolved Release: 06-Jun-2008
SA Document Body
With Certain Solaris 10 patches installed, svccfg(1M) may remove External
Dependencies and leave the system Unbootable
1. Impact
If the Solaris 10 command svccfg(1M) is run on systems with certain
VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0 patches installed (as listed below), the system
may hang during a subsequent boot up.
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 systems (running VERITAS VxVM 4.1) with patch 117080-07
(MP2)
* Solaris 10 systems (running VERITAS VxVM 4.1) with patch 124358-03
through 124358-05 (RPs for MP2)
* Solaris 10 systems (running VERITAS VxVM 5.0) with patch 122058-09
(MP1)
* Solaris 10 systems (running VERITAS VxVM 5.0) with patch 124361-01
through 124361-05 (RPs for MP1)
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 systems (running VERITAS VxVM 4.1) with patch 120586-04
(MP1)
* Solaris 10 systems (running VERITAS VxVM 5.0) with patch 128060-02
(RP1)
Notes:
1. Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 running VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0 are not
affected by this issue.
2. The described issue only occurs on systems with EMC PowerPath
software installed.
3. Symptoms
The dependency for "powerstartup" is lost after running svccfg(1M)
when one of the patches mentioned is installed on the system.
Before installing one of the above listed VxVM patches:
# svcs -l vxvm-sysboot
fmri svc:/system/vxvm/vxvm-sysboot:default
name Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) Init service.
enabled true
state online
next_state none
state_time Thu Apr 26 23:58:28 2007
alt_logfile
/etc/svc/volatile/system-vxvm-vxvm-sysboot:default.log
restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
dependency optional_all/none svc:/system/emcpower/powerstartup
(online)
dependency require_all/none svc:/system/identity:node (online)
After installing one of the affected VxVM patches:
# svcs -l vxvm-sysboot
fmri svc:/system/vxvm/vxvm-sysboot:default
name Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) Init service.
enabled true
state online
next_state none
state_time Fri Jul 13 18:38:47 2007
alt_logfile
/etc/svc/volatile/system-vxvm-vxvm-sysboot:default.log
restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
dependency require_all/none svc:/system/identity:node (online)
Note that the dependency for powerstartup is lost. During the next
system reboot, the system will hang upon boot up with an error message
similar to the following:
Boot device: disk File and args:
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.12 00/07/17 15:48:16.
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490/ufsboot
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-36 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Hostname: xxxxxx
4. Workaround
To work around the described issue, manually re-import the
"/var/svc/manifest/system/emcpower/powerpath_services.xml" manifest.
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 125551-02 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 125552-02 or later
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