I'm applying patches to a Solaris 8 server using smpatch to bring it
up to date.

Most of the patches went fine, but a few produced the following error
message:

add patch 111097-25
SUNWcsr: failed to add tomtppm to /etc/name_to_major:
(tomtppm) already in use as a driver or alias.
SUNWcsr: failed to add m1535ppm to /etc/name_to_major:
(m1535ppm) already in use as a driver or alias.
SUNWcsr: failed to add ics951601 to /etc/name_to_major:
(ics951601) already in use as a driver or alias.
SUNWcsr: failed to add adm1031 to /etc/name_to_major:
(adm1031) already in use as a driver or alias.

My script performed a reboot after all the patches were added, and the
good news is the server came back up.

Can anyone suggest what I should do next?

Dennis Williams

oracledba.williams@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm applying patches to a Solaris 8 server using smpatch to bring it
> up to date.
>
> Most of the patches went fine, but a few produced the following error
> message:
>
> add patch 111097-25
> SUNWcsr: failed to add tomtppm to /etc/name_to_major:
> (tomtppm) already in use as a driver or alias.
> SUNWcsr: failed to add m1535ppm to /etc/name_to_major:
> (m1535ppm) already in use as a driver or alias.
> SUNWcsr: failed to add ics951601 to /etc/name_to_major:
> (ics951601) already in use as a driver or alias.
> SUNWcsr: failed to add adm1031 to /etc/name_to_major:
> (adm1031) already in use as a driver or alias.
>
> My script performed a reboot after all the patches were added, and the
> good news is the server came back up.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I should do next?
>
> Dennis Williams
>

This message is informational, not really an error message. What it is
saying is that it is not going to add the said entry to the
/etc/name_to_major file because it is already there. No big deal. You
rebooted and everything came back. Were you watching the boot process?
If you didn't see anything remarkable there, I would call it good.

"0xDEADABE" <none@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:rsmdnXE5uLXg1uDbnZ2dnUVZ_vPinZ2d@adelphia.com ...
> oracledba.williams@gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm applying patches to a Solaris 8 server using smpatch to bring it
> > up to date.
> >
> > Most of the patches went fine, but a few produced the following error
> > message:
> >
> > add patch 111097-25
> > SUNWcsr: failed to add tomtppm to /etc/name_to_major:
> > (tomtppm) already in use as a driver or alias.
> > SUNWcsr: failed to add m1535ppm to /etc/name_to_major:
> > (m1535ppm) already in use as a driver or alias.
> > SUNWcsr: failed to add ics951601 to /etc/name_to_major:
> > (ics951601) already in use as a driver or alias.
> > SUNWcsr: failed to add adm1031 to /etc/name_to_major:
> > (adm1031) already in use as a driver or alias.
> >
> > My script performed a reboot after all the patches were added, and the
> > good news is the server came back up.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what I should do next?
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> >
>
> This message is informational, not really an error message. What it is
> saying is that it is not going to add the said entry to the
> /etc/name_to_major file because it is already there. No big deal. You
> rebooted and everything came back. Were you watching the boot process?
> If you didn't see anything remarkable there, I would call it good.

You might also want to check that patch for a README file. It would
probably have some information about any special requirements it might need,
such as applying in single user mode. More than likely, though, the first
reply you got is correct. You're probably good to go.

BobW