Solaris patching - single user mode question

(imported topic written by TSBT_gary_gibbings)

I have just started with TEM 8.2.1093 and have now successfully patched a Solaris 10 SPARC server using a custom baseline, however

my question to you is when I connected to the server to see what was going on, I saw that the console had been brought down to single user mode (fine) but was sitting at the prompt to enter the root password… so I manually entered this and then after some time the patch cluster kicked in… Did I miss a step and that the password needed to be supplied earlier within the TEM baseline or does this simply play no role at all and the patches will have installed and the server reboot when the patches finished?

Any help will be useful

Thank you

(imported comment written by yexiang)

Do you have the list of fixlets included in the baseline?

Based on my understanding , fixlets for Solaris patch do not have any action to boot system into single user mode

(imported comment written by TSBT_gary_gibbings)

I created the following baseline containing :

Single-User mode task - Solaris

Recommended Patch cluster - Solaris 10

Reconfigure Reboot Task - solaris

as I said this all worked fine, but of course I entered the root password… I may just rerun this and see what happens

Cheers

Garyg

(imported comment written by RobertKurt)

Logging in with the root password should not be necessary.

If you do, you could peek at the logs, maybe even do a tail -f on the most recent log in /var/opt/BESClient/__Global/Logs to see how the patching is progressing…

Hope this helps,

Robert