> I have an E450 (4 CPUs, 4GB RAM) running Solaris 8. Yesterday I applied the
> 8_Recommended patch bundle. This morning I rebooted but the kernel panics thus:
>
> SunOS Rel 5.8 Version Generic_108528-23 64-bit
> panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000:
> mod_hold_stub: couldn't load stub module sched/TS_DPTBL
> 000000001-4-6ed0 genunix: mod_hold_stub+1a8 (1, 2050, 10412, ... etc, etc
>
> Any recommendations on how to get this machine up and running?

The problem was that I had not backed out the prioctl workaround before installing the Sun patches.

Thanks Casper Dik.

> This might be caused by installing the workaround for the priocntl
> bug.
> Boot the system from the net or CD; then undo the workaround, copying
> the files from wherever you linked /kernel/sched to back to /kernel/sched
> and /usr/kernel/sched
> (You'll probably have a directory called /kernel/sched/a/b/c/d/e/f/....)

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