FYI, here's an update (resolution) to my problem...
I decided to try an upgrade to the new SXCE snv_90 build thinking maybe
some problems have been solved and... it works! There must have been
problems with b89 for upgrades, at least on my system. Three things were
different this time: 1) I moved a lot of application files (unrelated to
OpenSolaris) from the OS disk to another disk to reduce the amount of file
copying lucreate had to do, 2) The liveupgrade20 patch code in snv_90
propagated grub information across all BE's (I keep 3 BE's on my system),
and 3) After I created a new BE from my existing build 79, I tried booting
the new BE to make sure it worked okay without an upgrade (which it did).
Art
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Arthur Person wrote:
> Dave, Mary,
>
> Okay, thanks. My upgrade won't boot for some reason... it's good to know
> that it *should* work. I know there's a "cp -pr" bug in b79 such that not
> all files are copied sometimes when doing "cp -pr" (bug ID 6658028) (I've
> had problems with this myself in this build...) Could this affect an
> upgrade or does the upgrade procedure use other methods than "cp"?
>
> Thanks for the help...
>
> Art
>
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, mary ding wrote:
>
>> Arthur:
>>
>> The upgrade of OS will work. However, the netbeans and tools will need to be
>> upgraded manually if you upgrade from SXDE to SXCE.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave Miner wrote:
>>> Arthur Person wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know if SXDE and SXCE are incompatible for upgrades? I.e. am
>>>> I not allowed to do an upgrade from SXDE to SXCE but rather must do a
>>>> fresh install from the SXCE iso?
>>>>
>>>
>>> That upgrade path should work.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>> Thanks...
>>>>
>>>> Art
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Arthur Person wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi...
>>>>>
>>>>> I've done a live upgrade from SXDE snv_79a to SXCE b89, but booting the
>>>>> new b89 just hangs. With "-kv" applied during boot, I get as far as:
>>>>>
>>>>> PCIE-device: pci8086,3510 at 0, pcie_pci9
>>>>> pcie_pci9 is /pci at 0,0/pci8086,25f7 at 2/pci8086,3500 at
>>>>> 0/pci8086,3510 at 0
>>>>>
>>>>> but no response after that. That last line points to the boot slice of
>>>>> the new b89 install. If I reboot back into b79, everything comes up
>>>>> normal again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had one error during the upgrade to b89:
>>>>>
>>>>> Doing pkgadd of SUNWscmu to /
>>>>> 5722 blocks
>>>>> ncall 224
>>>>> Segmentation Fault - core dumped
>>>>> Segmentation Fault - core dumped
>>>>> pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
>>>>>
>>>>> Installation of <SUNWscmu> failed.
>>>>> pkgadd return code = 1
>>>>>
>>>>> Could this somehow be the cause of the problem? I don't have any
>>>>> StorageTek hardware on my system. My system is 2 SATA drives in a mirror
>>>>> off an LSI SAS3041E-R controller for a ufs OS device and 10 SATA drives
>>>>> running ZFS RAIDz6. I'm pretty-well stumped here and unable to upgrade.
>>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks...
>>>>>
>>>>> Art
>>>>>
>>>>> Arthur A. Person
>>>>> Research Assistant, System Administrator
>>>>> Penn State Department of Meteorology
>>>>> email: person at meteo.psu.edu, phone: 814-863-1563
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