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Subject:[pkg-discuss] image-update: image-update cannot be done on live image
From:Ethan Quach (etha@sun.com)
Date:Jun 26, 2008 10:18:30 am
List:org.opensolaris.pkg-discuss

Henry Jen wrote:

Hi,

I try to do image-update from opensolaris 2008.05(nv86), but the command failed, and the cause seems to be cannot create/copy BE.

$ pfexec pkg image-update pkg: unable to create an auto snapshot. pkg recovery is disabled. pkg: image-update cannot be done on live image

The last couple lines of image-update -v are:

pkg:/SUNWipoib at 0.5.11,5.11-0.86:20080426T174943Z -> pkg:/SUNWipoib at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T174335Z None -> pkg:/SUNWpython-cherrypy at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T182501Z None -> pkg:/SUNWixgbe at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T174340Z None -> pkg:/SUNWural at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T182505Z None pkg: unable to create BE None pkg: attempt to mount opensolaris failed. pkg: image-update cannot be done on live image

Looks like it fails to create a snapshot of the running BE, which causes all the other errors coming from pkg. Unfortunately, the version of beadm in 2008.05 doesn't allow for any workarounds for providing better error or debug messages from beadm.

Can you provide the output of 'zfs list', and 'beadm list'

Does <pool>/boot/grub/menu.lst exist? If not, see below.

It might worth note that I installed OpenSolaris in a partition with a process roughly described at http://blogs.sun.com/slowhog/entry/install_opensolaris_side_by_side.

I did some experiment on beadm command, and found that I cannot use the same pool, but has to copy the BE to another pool. I.e, 'pfexec beadm create test' says cannot create, but 'pfexec beadm create -p pool create test' succeed. However, I cannot activate the new BE on other pool:

$ pfexec beadm activate opensolaris-1 beadm: Unable to activate opensolaris-1

Any ideas?

What device are you actually booting from? From the instructions listed in that blog, I don't see an installgrub ever done on the slice containing the pool you created for OpenSolaris. This tells me that you're still booting the UFS slice with your existing LU BE. While this works in allowing you to choose to boot the OpenSolaris BE, beadm won't be happy because it expects the OpenSolaris BE to be in bootable root pool with its own menu.lst In a bootable root pool the menu.lst is stored in "pool dataset" of the pool. If you're currently booted to your OpenSolaris BE, try this:

Mount the slice containing your UFS BE somewhere, e.g. /mnt

Copy the menu.lst from that slice into the pool dataset:

cp /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst <pool>/boot/grub/menu.lst

Install grub into the slice used for you pool. (This will make your pool the default device that's booted, no longer your UFS slice, but you can still boot your UFS BE by selecting it from the menu)

installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 <vdev_used_for_pool>

Now, depending on what your menu entry looks like for your OpenSolaris BE, beadm should start to work. As long as your menu entry contains the 'bootfs' directive with the correct dataset value, beadm should be happy.

Let me know if this works.

PS. After destroy the /opt zfs filesystem, beadm create now simply segment fault. Is there an assumption there must be a /opt filesystem?

No, there's no assumption that there must be any subordinate file systems. I have an instance of OpenSolaris installed with just a root file system and things work fine. If you send me the core file, I'll take a look.

thanks, -ethan

Cheers, Henry

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