Shawn Walker wrote: > Pete Dennis wrote: >> Bart Smaalders wrote: >>> petede wrote: >>>> Folks, >>>> >>>> I am trying to pkg image-update on an snv_96 image in a VirtualBox >>>> environment >>>> and it fails with: >>>> >>>> pkg: unable to create BE none >>>> pkg: image-update cannot be done on a live image >>>> >>>> When the pkg process was started there were no BE's apart from >>>> opensolaris-1 >>>> at the end of the failure I have another BE: opensolaris-2 which is >>>> mounted on /tmp/.be..... >>>> >>>> The pkg version is: 1b1547cb8655 >>>> >>>> Any thoughts ? >>> How big is your virtual disk? >> >> I have three disks defined: >> >> - IDE primary Master: 16Gb >> - IDE primary slave: 509Mb >> - IDE secondary slave: 509Mb >> >> from within the machine It says 9.40G is available. >> >> However the zpool status does say the rpool is using an older >> on-disk format. >> >> I'll do a zpool upgrade and then retry the image-update. > > Be careful of that zpool upgrade; that can cause a different issue. > Search the mailing list archive first. >
Alas the same error occurred - unable to create BE None. I wonder if this is memory thing - the VM only has 1Gb allocated to it... _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
