I just ran the following on my snv_129 system: nice -n 15 pkg image-update -v --be-name opensolaris_132
and this is what I saw: ... Download: SUNWthunderbirdl10n-extra ... Done Action removal failed for 'var/core' (pkg://opensolaris.org/OSOLvpanels): OSError: [Errno 16] Device busy: '/tmp/tmp59s9_D/var/core' The running system has not been modified. Modifications were only made to a clone of the running system. This clone is mounted at /tmp/tmp59s9_D should you wish to inspect it. pkg: An unexpected error happened during image-update: [Errno 16] Device busy: '/tmp/tmp59s9_D/var/core' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 3139, in handle_errors __ret = func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 3116, in main_func return func(img, pargs) File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 947, in image_update ret_code = __api_execute_plan(op, api_inst) File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 615, in __api_execute_plan api_inst.execute_plan() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 587, in execute_plan self.__img.imageplan.execute() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py", line 849, in execute p.execute_removal(src, dest) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkgplan.py", line 262, in execute_removal src.remove(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/actions/directory.py", line 124, in remove os.rmdir(path) OSError: [Errno 16] Device busy: '/tmp/tmp59s9_D/var/core' pkg: This is an internal error. Please let the developers know about this problem by filing a bug at http://defect.opensolaris.org and including the above traceback and this message. The version of pkg(5) is '512c6b2dfda2'. Removal Phase ... ================================================================================= Here is some info on /tmp/tmp59s9_D/var/core: # df -h /tmp/tmp59s9_D/var/core Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on pool/core 228G 8.5G 4.9G 64% /var/core # ls /tmp/tmp59s9_D/var/core dbx.25154.core firefox-bin.1100.core firefox-bin.1831.core firefox-bin.3188.core firefox-bin.5421.core firefox-bin.7762.core gam_server.1016.core gnome-vfs-daemon.224.core gssd.1292.core gssd.23299.core gssd.759.core gssd.776.core iiimd.23959.core iiimd.23960.core iiimd.673.core java.3071.core kadmin.local.4363.core kcfd.2615.core kinit.1107.core kinit.29686.core ksh93.21776.core ksh93.27420.core mutt.24968.core openct-control.20692.core openct-control.20715.core pcscd.2750.core scanf.328.core scanf.337.core scanf.546.core snmpd.5229.core start-openct.20691.core su.24942.core su.25297.core su.25308.core Is this a known issue and is there a fix/workaround? -- Will Fiveash Sun Microsystems Inc. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/ Sent from mutt, a sweet ASCII MUA