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On 10/ 6/09 11:29 PM, Evan Layton wrote: > > Which beadm bug are you referring to that caused these failures? 11221 beadm create core dumps on OpenSolaris 122 SPARC http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11221 Fixed now - thanks to David Comay for making it happen! > Is your system still missing /rpool/boot/menu.lst? If it is missing > and you're reliably hitting this then you're likely to hit the issue > going from build 124 to 125. As for this being reproducible on build > 111b I'm still completely unable to reproduce this there. However I am > able to hit this with build 124 now. Because I can now reproduce this > I'm reopening bug 7880. As mentioned, because of 11221, I've done quite a few image-updates from snv111b. It fails every time. snv111b was installed by building pkg from source on sxce snv103 and using it to install to a separate disk.. For sure, this process didn't create /rpool/boot or /rpool/boot/menu.lst. Just read your comments appended to 7880. > I'm able to reproduce this in build 124 and it appears to be > something strange with fgets() not returning the contents of the file > correctly. This sounds different. The problem was that image-update failed if rpool/boot didn't exist, and it also failed if rpool/boot existed but rpool/boot/menu.lst didn't (different error message). As requested: the output from beadm (note the root pool is called tpool - don't ask :-) - and there /is/ a tpool/boot/menu.lst): # uname -vp snv_124 sparc # export BE_PRINT_ERR=true # beadm create newbe # ls /tpool/boot/ menu.lst It worked just fine, and there is a menu.lst now. Moving it away... # beadm create newbe be_open_menu: menu.lst file /tpool/boot/menu.lst does not exist, WARNING: menu.lst file /tpool/boot/menu.lst does not exist, generating a new menu.lst file So far so good. But: # mv boot xboot # beadm create newbe be_open_menu: menu.lst file /tpool/boot/menu.lst does not exist, WARNING: menu.lst file /tpool/boot/menu.lst does not exist, generating a new menu.lst file be_copy: failed to add BE (newbe) to boot menu be_copy: destroying partially created boot environment Unable to create newbe. Missing boot menu file. So it is partially fixed - if rpool/boot exists, it will succeed. But if rpool/boot is missing, it still fails. Maybe I should add these outputs to the bug, which obviously is very low priority since the workaround is trivial, although I imagine the fix for this aspect is equally trivial :-) Cheers -- Frank
