Last night I updated my VMI from 3.0 to 3.01 and had a list of about 30 updates that I wanted to install. One of the updates told me that something needed to be downgraded, and i needed to use a --force switch. I didn't think too much of it at the moment, wanting to just get done and go home (it was late at that point). I continued patching without incident, then came to a list of critical patches that also began saying downgrade, use --force. Since I had already forced one, I began to be a little wary of this and skipped those warning of downgrade. The one I did force through was ESX-6856573 from the Security Patches. Is there any way to reverse this patch change?
And wny isn't there a way to tell which patches have been superseeded by other patches untill the time of install. We really need patch management.
Also, Durring one of the reboots i got an error, recorded in 1.log, the log entry is:
Parsing error: parse error: Error adding an instance: CIM_ERR_FAILED: A general error occurred that is not covered by a more specific error code: "PG_Provider class needs to be registered before register the Provider capabilities class"
Can anybody explain these few things please?
Thank you in advance for your advice,
