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QNX® Software Development Platform 6.4.0 Truncated Message Copy Issue — SMP PowerPC Kernels Patch (Patch ID 1635) Installation Note
Date of this edition: March 03, 2010
Target OS: This patch is compatible with targets that are running QNX® Neutrino® 6.4.0.
Host OS: In order to apply this patch, you must have installed the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.0 as a self-hosted QNX Neutrino system, or on one of the following host OSs:
- Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista 64-bit, XP SP2 or SP3, or 2000 SP4
- Linux Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4 or 5, Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.1 64-bit, Red Hat Fedora Core 6 or 7, Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS or 7, or SUSE 10
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Before installing this patch, get the
applypatch Patch (Patch ID 1523) from the Download area on
our website, and then install it.
For information about the issues that this patch addresses, see the release notes. |
This note includes:
Installing this patch
- Log in as root (or with administrator privileges on Windows).
- On Debian 3.1 hosts, set up your environment by typing:
source /etc/profile
- Download the patch-640-1635-SMPmsgpass.tar archive to your host environment.
- On Windows hosts, run cmd.exe.
- Use the applypatch utility to install the patch:
- On Linux, if you use sudo (as would be the case on Ubuntu),
you must specify the -E option to preserve the environment.
In this case, the PATH environment variable is set
to a safe one for security reasons, so you need to specify the full path to
the utility:
sudo -E $QNX_HOST/usr/bin/applypatch patch-640-1635-SMPmsgpass.tar - On other hosts, type:
applypatch patch-640-1635-SMPmsgpass.tar
For more information about applypatch, to see its entry you'll need to download version 6.4.1 or later of the Utilities Reference located here http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/. - On Linux, if you use sudo (as would be the case on Ubuntu),
you must specify the -E option to preserve the environment.
In this case, the PATH environment variable is set
to a safe one for security reasons, so you need to specify the full path to
the utility:
Uninstalling this patch
- Log in as root (or with administrator privileges on Windows).
- On Debian 3.1 hosts, set up your environment by typing:
source /etc/profile
- On Windows hosts, run cmd.exe.
- Use the applypatch utility to install the patch:
- On Linux, if you use sudo (as would be the case on Ubuntu),
you must specify the -E option to preserve the environment.
In this case, the PATH environment variable is set
to a safe one for security reasons, so you need to specify the full path to
the utility:
sudo -E $QNX_HOST/usr/bin/applypatch -U 1635 - On other hosts, type:
applypatch -U 1635
- On Linux, if you use sudo (as would be the case on Ubuntu),
you must specify the -E option to preserve the environment.
In this case, the PATH environment variable is set
to a safe one for security reasons, so you need to specify the full path to
the utility:
Technical support
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