*Upgrade and Live Upgrade do not work with SXCR build 37.* Solaris Express Community Release Known Issues Page:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/solex_cr_known_issues/ In order to use this release, you will need to do a full install. Bug details follow: 6409425 liveupgrade and upgrade fail immediately under snv_37 SPARC and x86 Description: I've been running the Solaris Nevada biweekly builds on my U80 workstation since build 2 and this is the first serious LiveUpgrade issue I've encountered. I run LiveUpgrade as root from a terminal by invocating the "lu" command. x>Upgrade - Upgrade an Alternate Boot Environment x x Name of Boot Environment: snv_37 x Package Media: /net/jurassic/export/ni-2/nv/s/37 The second disk in this workstation is running snv_35 and a LiveUpgrade to snv_37 resulted in the following error message: Live Upgrade Upgrade operation did not complete successfully. Validating the contents of the media </net/jurassic/export/ni-2/nv/s/37>. The media is a standard Solaris media. The media contains an operating system upgrade image. The media contains <Solaris> version <11>. Constructing upgrade profile to use. Locating the operating system upgrade program. Checking for existence of previously scheduled Live Upgrade requests. Creating upgrade profile for BE <snv_37>. Determining packages to install or upgrade for BE <snv_37>. Performing the operating system upgrade of the BE <snv_37>. CAUTION: Interrupting this process may leave the boot environment unstable or unbootable. *ERROR: Installation of the packages from this media of the media failed; pfinstall returned these diagnostics:* Processing profile Loading local environment and services Generating upgrade actions Space check complete. Building upgrade script Preparing system for Solaris upgrade ERROR: The upgrade script terminated abnormally ERROR: The upgrade script terminated abnormally INFORMATION: The file </var/sadm/system/logs/upgrade_log> on boot environment <snv_37> contains a log of the upgrade operation. INFORMATION: The file </var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_cleanup> on boot environment <snv_37> contains a log of cleanup operations required. INFORMATION: Review the files listed above. Remember that all of the files are located on boot environment <snv_37>. Before you activate boot environment <snv_37>, determine if any additional system maintenance is required or if additional media of the software distribution must be installed. The Solaris upgrade of the boot environment <snv_37> failed. Derek Cicero wrote: > Build 37 of the Solaris Express, Community Release is now available > for download. > > See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ for details. > > Thanks, > Derek > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
