Quoth Peter Memishian on Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:19:30PM +0800:
> It seems that "svccfg refresh" is not a complete fix after all.  The
> problem is that for BFU or Live Upgrade, the system performing the upgrade
> may (and unless it's running build 82) will not yet have this command --
> so the refresh won't be done and thus first boot will fail to properly
> configure networking.  For systems with aggregations, the configuration
> for those aggregations will require manual intervention to restore.
> 
> I'd think running manifest-import earlier in boot would be a complete fix
> to this issue, but it's not clear to me what the schedule of that work is.

It won't be done within the next month.

> Until that fix is available though, the alternatives seem limited -- the
> only one that occurs to me is to have net-physical manually start dlmgmtd
> (through svcadm if possible, though previous attempts to do this failed).

Why did they fail?

If nothing else, we can instruct people to refresh network/physical
manually and reboot, right?


David

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