On 03/13/10 18:44, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 03/13/10 03:10 PM, James Carlson wrote: >> I just attempted to upgrade my OpenSolaris build 131 AMD64 system to >> build 134, and failed miserably. Here's what happened: >> >> First, since this step is normally required, I tried to do "pkg install >> SUNWipkg". That didn't work. It failed (after downloading well over >> 1GB) telling me that I had to use an alternate boot environment due to >> the nature of the update. > > Do you have packages from /contrib installed? If so, they have > incorrect dependencies which caused the solver to incorrectly attempt to > upgrade you to a new build. The solver in b134+ doesn't allow that. > > The solution is to remove /contrib (or /pending) packages and try again.
Hmm. I'd removed those once before. I thought the problem was fixed. Thanks; I'll have to remember that one for next time. It's a bit of a hurdle. >> I tried doing "pkg image-update", and that failed, telling me that I had >> to install a new SUNWipkg first. That was a bit expected, though >> obviously not possible. > > Use the -f option to ignore the SUNWipkg version check (which is > probably wrong anyway due to the packages above). OK. >> I next did (as root; I'm still old school in some respects): >> >> beadm create opensolaris-8 >> beadm mount opensolaris-8 /mnt/tmp >> pkg -R /mnt/tmp install SUNWipkg > > Err...not quite right. See FAQ B1: > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+pkg/FAQ That link just hangs. I guess I'll read it another day. I was able to get to 134 by using "bootadm update-archive" but it looks like I'm going back to 131, because there's a lot that just plain doesn't work right in 134. In particular, "less" and "telnet" seem to be terribly broken -- both just appear to hang unless I press ^J. I expect it's some sort of problem in the GNOME terminal emulator. Too bad. I liked the new log-in screen, and GNOME itself seemed *much* snappier once I was logged in. But I can't stand having the system be unusable for long periods of time or having basic things not work at all. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
