Yesterday I had a horrible experience upgrading OpenSolaris from 2008.05 to 2008.11.
I tried to follow http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/upgrade.html, but it failed a couple of times. The first attempt hanged during downloading nblib(?). The second attempt failed like this: ------------- PHASE ACTIONS Removal Phase 53860/53860 Update Phase 55283/123816 Action upgrade failed for 'opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' (pkg:/SUNWjavadb): OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpOHwMOe/opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' pkg: An unexpected error happened during image-update: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpOHwMOe/opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' The running system has not been modified. Modifications were only made to a clone of the running system. This clone is mounted at /tmp/tmpOHwMOe should you wish to inspect it. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1440, in ? ret = main_func() File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1404, in main_func return image_update(img, pargs) File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 391, in image_update img.imageplan.execute() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py", line 452, in execute p.execute_update(src, dest) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkgplan.py", line 297, in execute_update dest.install(self, src) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/actions/file.py", line 125, in install os.chmod(temp, mode) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpOHwMOe/opt/SUNWjavadb/docs/html/adminguide/cadminapps49914.html' ------------- During the 3-4 hours pkg ran, the (2GB mem, F4005 Ferrari) machine was swapping like crazy, and totally unusable (seconds of delay from entering a button on the keyboard until it appeared in gterm). Off course, when I whine about the experience to the local OpenSolaris Wizards (and starts to compare it to my mount old perfect experience of updating to the latest Ubuntu), I get this answer: pfexec pkg refresh --full pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.$(uname -v | sed s/snv_//) Funny enough, this is mentioned in the 2008.05 release notes: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/relnotes/200805/x86/#Update_Inst But not in the 2008.11 release notes: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/relnotes/200811/x86/ Actually, it is worse than that, because our update instructions does not mention them: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/upgrade.html (Oh, actually I find a link there now, after a day of problems, and nobody else I have whined to have seen the link either.) Suggestions: - Please make the release notes say something about what you have to do to upgrade from the previous release - Please make the release notes more readable - a list of bugs does not make a release notes IMNSHO - Please make the instructions for updating from the previous release more visible - pkg failed on two different places on two different tries while it simultaneously rendered the computer useless while running for many hours. Please put resources into fixing pkg. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
