@raja vijay singh.  If I understand correctly what you're saying then I think you're wrong - In a standard AEM 6.1 Geometrixx install (using the demo machine), deactivating a page will also deactivate the sub-pages, completely - not just the jcr:content node.  Something is misconfigured / reconfigur...

Will do, but don't hold your breath! Likewise if you get a flash of inspiration please do let me know.

I am stumped....On a page deactivation only the jcr:content node of the page concerned is deleted, not the page itself.  I've been completely through our code and cannot find anything that would interfere with the deactivation process.  In the AEM log and OSGi event log I get the normal, expected me...

I found the problem:  I also had the uber-jar in the bundle containing an older oak-auth.  After removing that the dependency is resolved.

I have the exact same problem after the 1.2.16 hotfix.  The imported packages for my bundle shows:org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.security.authentication.external,version=[1.0,2) -- Cannot be resolvedIn the depfinder the following is found:         org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.security.authentication...