On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:19:30PM +0800, Peter Memishian wrote: > > Folks, > > 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. > 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). > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > -- > meem
As a point of general design, we should always be extracting the new smf tools to a temporary location and using those tools, so you can avoid the need for flag-days of this nature. i.e. the archives themselves can move themselves past a flag day. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/
