Quoth David Bustos on Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:07:49PM -0800:
> Quoth Cathy Zhou on Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:41:48AM +0800:
> > But the reboot after bfu shows that although datalink-management service
> > instance is successfully removed, the network-physical still has the
> > dependency on the datalink-management service ("svcs -d
> > network/physical" does not show that dependency, but svcs -xv output
> > shows that the state of the network-physical service instance is now
> > offline because "Dependency svc:/network/datalink-management is
> > absent". A "svcadm refresh" fixes the problem.
>
> That's strange. I believe svcs -d and svcs -x should both use the
> running snapshot. If you can reproduce this, I would like to take
> a look.
svcs -d does use the running snapshot, and finds the dependency, but
doesn't find any instances, and so doesn't print anything. I'm not sure
whether I should file an RFE for svcs -d to say something if there is
a dependency with no instances.
David
