I found the source of the problem -- something/someone clobbered
/var/pkg... that'd do it :) I suspect I'm hosed now and have to
reinstall OpenSolaris, since there's really nothing left to rebuild my
image, correct?
From now on, regular, preventative ZFS snapshots will be done!
Thx/ERR
Shawn Walker wrote:
> Eric Reid wrote:
>> 'pkg' went from working on our b98 system to this:
>>
>> # uname -a
>> SunOS x4100-240-02 5.11 snv_98 i86pc i386 i86pc
>>
>> # pkg info
>> pkg: '/export/home/repo' is not an install image
>>
>> Any ideas how to resolve, and what might have happened? Is some
>> metadata around the main install-image corrupted? I searched
>> everywhere I could think.
>
> Do you by chance have a PKG_IMAGE environment variable set?
>
> What's the output of "which pkg" ?
>
> I ask because pkg will attempt to find the current image starting with
> the location of the executable.
>
> If you do "pkg -R / info" does it still fail?
>
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