Hi Last night set my machine to update paulj at opensolaris4:~$ uname -a SunOS opensolaris4 5.11 snv_99 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
paulj at opensolaris4:~$ pfexec beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- opensolaris-3 - - 24.35M static 2008-09-27 16:22 opensolaris-4 NR / 13.26G static 2008-10-19 22:57 opensolaris-5 - /tmp/tmpbM-Ixr 1.31G static 2008-10-31 03:46 paulj at opensolaris4:~$ prstat paulj at opensolaris4:~$ uname -a SunOS opensolaris4 5.11 snv_99 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris paulj at opensolaris4:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-4 30G 6.9G 23G 24% / swap 1.1G 316K 1.1G 1% /etc/svc/volatile /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1 30G 6.9G 23G 24% /lib/libc.so.1 swap 1.1G 8.0K 1.1G 1% /tmp swap 1.1G 44K 1.1G 1% /var/run rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-4/opt 23G 121M 23G 1% /opt rpool/export 23G 19K 23G 1% /export rpool/export/home 25G 1.7G 23G 7% /export/home rpool 23G 63K 23G 1% /rpool rpool/ROOT 23G 18K 23G 1% /rpool/ROOT rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5 30G 7.0G 23G 24% /tmp/tmpbM-Ixr rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5/opt 23G 121M 23G 1% /tmp/tmpbM-Ixr/opt paulj at opensolaris4:~$ pfexec beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- opensolaris-3 - - 24.35M static 2008-09-27 16:22 opensolaris-4 NR / 13.26G static 2008-10-19 22:57 opensolaris-5 - /tmp/tmpbM-Ixr 1.31G static 2008-10-31 03:46 paulj at opensolaris4:~$ paulj at opensolaris4:~$ pfexec pkg image-update Checking that SUNWipkg (in '/') is up to date... WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and should be updated before running image-update. Please update pkg(5) using 'pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg' and then retry the image-update. paulj at opensolaris4:~$ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) Completed 1/1 126/126 0.47/0.47 PHASE ACTIONS Removal Phase 3/3 Install Phase 15/15 Update Phase 160/160 PHASE ITEMS Reading Existing Index 9/9 Indexing Packages 1/1 paulj at opensolaris4:~$ pfexec pkg image-update DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) Completed 604/604 13804/13804 425.78/425.78 PHASE ACTIONS Removal Phase 5819/5819 Install Phase 8749/8749 Update Phase 14749/14749 PHASE ITEMS Reading Existing Index 9/9 Indexing Packages 378/604 24 hours later it's still indexing the packages. It's not stalled, it was at 190 when I went out 12 hours ago. prstat suggests nothing unusual. PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 1183 paulj 105M 52M sleep 59 0 0:00:15 1.8% thunderbird-bin/7 532 root 61M 30M sleep 59 0 0:03:17 1.2% Xorg/1 818 paulj 87M 15M sleep 59 0 0:00:24 1.1% gnome-terminal/2 834 root 686M 169M sleep 60 0 0:13:57 0.6% pkg/1 662 paulj 38M 11M sleep 59 0 0:01:48 0.5% geyes_applet2/1 660 paulj 89M 12M sleep 59 0 0:03:05 0.2% gnome-netstatus/2 628 paulj 55M 14M sleep 59 0 0:00:16 0.2% gnome-panel/1 623 paulj 41M 11M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.1% metacity/1 1018 paulj 5300K 1312K cpu0 49 0 0:01:24 0.1% prstat/1 664 paulj 54M 14M sleep 59 0 0:00:02 0.1% wnck-applet/1 633 paulj 79M 15M sleep 49 0 0:00:21 0.1% nautilus/1 671 paulj 55M 13M sleep 59 0 0:00:49 0.1% mixer_applet2/1 669 root 1572K 948K sleep 59 0 0:01:00 0.1% gnome-netstatus/1 658 paulj 38M 10M sleep 59 0 0:00:32 0.1% multiload-apple/1 338 mysql 51M 2120K sleep 59 0 0:00:52 0.1% mysqld/10 675 paulj 45M 13M sleep 59 0 0:00:16 0.0% clock-applet/1 587 paulj 44M 12M sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% iiim-panel/1 673 paulj 38M 10M sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% notification-ar/1 617 paulj 65M 9980K sleep 59 0 0:00:15 0.0% gnome-settings-/2 638 paulj 9664K 4132K sleep 59 0 0:00:02 0.0% xscreensaver/1 668 paulj 7504K 3192K sleep 59 0 0:00:11 0.0% gvfsd-trash/1 Total: 87 processes, 254 lwps, load averages: 0.14, 0.11, 0.07 I know its not the greatest machine but I've been using it for some time and never had a problem like this. Any ideas? TIA Paul