Thanks a ton for your help Sue. :-)
-Navneet
On 05/13/09 18:43, Susan Sohn wrote:
> Thank you for the confirmation. I have submitted doc bug 8884 to track
> this problem in the docs.
>
> Sue
>
> On 05/13/09 00:07, Prakash Nanjundan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The actual problem was due to unnecessary "backslash" in the command
>> line given for SPARC install service under below procedure link.
>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/advancedsetup.html
>>
>> # installadm create-service -n /0906sparc/ \ -s
>> //export/aiimages/osol-0906-ai-sparc.iso/
>> //export/aiserver/osol-0906-ai-sparc/
>>
>> Without "\" installadm works fine & service started successfully.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Prakash
>>
>> On 05/08/09 21:08, Susan Sohn wrote:
>>> On 05/08/09 07:34, Evan Layton wrote:
>>>> Avinash K wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But previous time it had 2008.11 installed on it and the
>>>>>>> installadm was working fine. Then also it had same IP and other
>>>>>>> configurations. So are you suggesting that I need to wait till
>>>>>>> the build with the necessary fix is released?
>>>>>>> Is there no workaround for the same? Will disabling nwam cause
>>>>>>> any issues or solve the problem?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Avinash K
>>>>>>
>>>>>> installadm has always required a static IP address and did not
>>>>>> work correctly with nwam until the fix for 8346. You will either
>>>>>> need to setup a static IP address for the server or wait for the
>>>>>> fix for 8346 to be available. To use a static IP address you will
>>>>>> need to disable nwam and manually set up a static IP address.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -evan
>>>>> Hi Evan/Sean,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just check the below logs, I have disabled nwam and configured
>>>>> static IP. But now the error is different, it says '*Unable to
>>>>> determine OpenSolaris install image type*.'.
>>>>> So is it problem with the downloaded image or some problem with IP
>>>>> configuration or anything other issue?
>>>>
>>>> The problem this time is the failure to determine the image type
>>>> which caused it to fail to create the service. Because of this
>>>> failure you still have no services configured so the SMF service
>>>> svc:/system/install/server:default will still be in maintenance
>>>> mode. You can try downloading the image again but I'm thinking
>>>> something else may be wrong here.
>>>>
>>>> Sundar, do you have any ideas on why it may be failing to determine
>>>> the image type?
>>>>
>>>> -evan
>>>
>>> What are the contents of the
>>> /export/aiserver/osol-0906-ai-sparc/platform directory?
>>>
>>> Sue
>>>
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# svcs svc:/network/physical
>>>>> STATE STIME FMRI
>>>>> disabled 17:10:37 svc:/network/physical:nwam
>>>>> online 17:10:39 svc:/network/physical:default
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# ifconfig -a
>>>>> lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL>
>>>>> mtu 8232 index 1
>>>>> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
>>>>> bge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
>>>>> index 2
>>>>> inet 10.12.176.49 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.12.176.255
>>>>> ether 0:9:3d:13:9f:d9
>>>>> lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL>
>>>>> mtu 8252 index 1
>>>>> inet6 ::1/128
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# svcs -x
>>>>> svc:/system/install/server:default (Installadm Utility)
>>>>> State: maintenance since Fri May 08 17:21:18 2009
>>>>> Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.
>>>>> See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
>>>>> See: installadm(1M)
>>>>> See: /var/svc/log/system-install-server:default.log
>>>>> Impact: This service is not running.
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# installadm create-service -n sparc1 \ -s
>>>>> /root/Desktop/osol-0906-111a-ai-sparc.iso
>>>>> /export/aiserver/osol-0906-ai-sparc
>>>>> Unable to determine OpenSolaris install image type.
>>>>> The installadm SMF service (svc:/system/install/server:default) is
>>>>> no longer online
>>>>> because the last install service has been disabled or deleted.
>>>>
>>>>
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