Solaris Live Upgrade luupgrade Command Missing the Progress Bar (6239850)

The upgrade progress bar does not appear when you use the Solaris Live Upgrade software in the following manner:

• You use the Solaris 10 10/08 CD media to upgrade the OS.

• You upgrade a boot environment by using the luupgrade command with the following options:

  • -i to install from the CD media

  • -O “-nodisplay -noconsole” to run the installer on the second CD in text mode and without user interaction

• You are upgrading to the Solaris 10 10/08 software from the following releases:

  • Solaris 9 release

  • Solaris 10 release

For example, if you run the following command, the progress bar should be displayed after you see the following output:

Running installer on BE s10u1.

However, the bar fails to appear.

# luupgrade -i -n s10u1 -s /net/installsrv/export/s10u1
 -O "-nodisplay -noconsole"


Validating the contents of the media /net/installsvr/export/s10u1.
The media is a standard Solaris media.
The media contains a standard Solaris installer.
The media contains Solaris 3 version 10.
Mounting BE s10u1.
Running installer on BE s10u1.

No error message is displayed.

Workaround: Use the prstat command. This command enables you to watch the progress while packages are being added during the installation.