HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1.B-4 Patch Summary and Release Notes (13156)

• Fixes a problem with CAA placement policy when host names in "HOSTING MEMBERS"
are in uppercase letters.
• Corrects a problem in which CAA is incorrectly showing the status of network resources
on a halted member.
• Fixes a problem in cfs block reservation code where cfs attempted to release a lock more
than once.
• Introduces a code tracing capability of the aliasd and aliasd_niff daemons to improve
troubleshooting.
• Prevents a race that can occur during the planned relocation of a file system.
• Improves the reliability of the DRD subsystem when faced with tape devices and tape device
failures.
• Introduces a mechanism to improve reliability for synchronizing cluster alias ID sets among
cluster members.
• Fixes the cause of the following CNX panic in cluster reconfiguration:
cnx_change_cluster_tx_state: illegal transaction state
• Fixes an ICS panic issue that occurs early in the boot process.
Patch 27002.00
TCRMAN540
• Provides a new command, clu_ping, to determine the status of the interconnects in a stretched
cluster environment.
• Updates the caa_relocate(8) and cluamgr(8) reference pages.
4.2.2 Patches Delivered in Previous Kits
The following TruCluster Server patches were delivered in previous Version 5.1B patch kits.
These patches will be installed on your system if you did not install the previous kit.
Patch 27001.00
TCRBASE540
• Fixes a problem that causes the cluster alias manager SUITlet to falsely interpret any cluster
alias with virtual={t|f} configured as a virtual alias regardless of its actual setting.
• Corrects problems in which SysMan drdmgr dumps tcl stack when a user tries to manage
devices or file systems of a cluster node that is down.
• Corrects an issue to allow the Device Request Dispatcher, DRD, to retry to get disk attributes
when EINPROGRESS is returned from the disk driver.
• Address issues with “address already in use” messages from klogin and kshell.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability in CAA.
• Fixes a kernel memory fault.
• Corrects a problem in which the MC-API call imc_ckerrcnt_mr()incorrectly returns an error
status, although the functions error count parameter is not increasing.
• Preserves the error code from an asynchronous write error on a CFS client and returns the
error from the close() system call.
• Fixes a Distributed Lock Manager panic when calling the dlm_get_lkinfo() routine passing
an lkid of a lock block that has already been declared dead by the deadlock detection thread.
• Corrects a problem to allow the use of 255 in the LAN Interconnect IP address.
• Fixes a CFS client panic during a file system read operation where the server goes down.
and the client itself becomes the server and attempts to release the direct I/O token that had
already been released.
4.2 Summary of TruCluster Server Software Patches 159