Ahh, Now it makes sense....
The error was ( I had to change the server name to protect the innocent). zoneadm: /zones/xxxxx: No such file or directory could not verify zonepath /zones/xxxxx because of the above errors. zoneadm: zone xxxxxx failed to verify I didn't even think of that as I did do a shutdown and booted back to single user. Many thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:50 AM To: Stewart, Tom L. Cc: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] Question on new Nov patch cluster for a zoned system. Stewart, Tom L. wrote: > All, > > I have a T2000 with a couple of zones and when I tried to install the > patch cluster from Nov 07 in the Global zone, it failed. > any idea why it failed, are there logs, patchadd output? it should not have failed > According to the CLUSTER_README > > WARNING!! IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that the installation of this patch > cluster be performed in single-user mode (Run Level S). > > So I shutdown the zones and rebooted to single user mode. The > install_cluster process took less than a minute and gave errors on > trying to patch the first zone. > > Do I need to run the patch in normal mode or is this some sort of bug? > if you boot to Single User Mode ( as opposed to dropping to Single User from Multi User ) then you need to run the filesystem/local:default SMF, or mountall -l As otherwise the zone's zonepath will not be mounted. What errors did you see? Enda > Thank you, > Tom > _______________________________________________ > zones-discuss mailing list > zones-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
