Subject: SGI DCE/DFS and Recommended Patch Set Incompatibility To: sgidce_announce@palladium.corp.sgi.com Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 10:04:20 -0600 (CST) Sender: owner-sgidce_announce@palladium.corp.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: TAC-Eagan Support Center TITLE O======================================= IRIX 6.2 November and December recommended patch sets are incompatible with the Distributed File System (DFS). INFORMATIONAL TEXT O======================================= The IRIX 6.2 November patch set for the following platforms is incompatible with the SGI Distributed File System (DFS) as documented in PV 547311. Challenge DM/L/XL & Onyx POWER Challenge L/XL & POWER Onyx The IRIX 6.2 December patch set for all platforms is incompatible with DFS. It is expected that all subsequent IRIX 6.2 recommended patch sets will contain this incompatibility. A problem occurs when linking DFS on a system with the November or subsequent patch sets due to an incompatibility in kernel rollup patch 2401. The autoconfig will fail with the following error: ERROR 33: Undefined data symbol "polllock" -- 1st referenced by krpch.a(comsoc_sys.o). DFS customers running the IRIX 6.2 operating system should not load any patch set with patch 2401 until a compatible DFS patch is distributed. This fix is targeted for DCE/DFS 1.1C rollup patch 2678 which is in testing for release at this time. There currently are no plans to move patch 2401 into IRIX 6.3 or 6.4. If this status changes an appropriate DFS patch will be distributed for these operating systems. DCE/DFS Customer Support