mm .. that's not good (thinking back to experiences where well intentioned consultants clobbered /var/sadm/install/contents on the SVR4 packaging tool and patches wouldn't install) .. perhaps it might make sense to put this in a separate container .. erm .. filesystem and do regular snapshots of this .. might be a nice RFE for the all-in- one packaging tool to protect it's database from accidental deletion/ corruption somehow.
On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Eric Reid wrote: > 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? >> > > > -- > > > > > Eric Reid > > Staff Engineer, Software > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > > > > Phone: +1 269.629.7238 > Cell: +1 269.569.1042 > Fax: +1 650.352.4428 > Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/err > AIM: ereidsan > SL: EricReid SunMicrosystems > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
