David Bustos wrote:
> 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.
>
I see. Yes, I think make svcs -d to report that dependency would be more
accurate.
Thanks for taking a look
- Cathy
