Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade

When Using Already Installed Patches for Sun Microelectronics Platforms During an Upgrade to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4240147), the System Fails to Boot

When you upgrade to the Solaris 8 operating environment using already installed patches for Sun Microelectronics platforms, the system fails to boot.

Workaround: If you plan to upgrade to the Solaris 8 operating environment and you have either patch IDs 107258-02 or 107258-01 installed on your system that is running the Solaris 7 operating environment, type:

# patchrm 107258-02
# patchrm 107258-01

# patchadd 107258-02
# patchadd 107258-01

Relocated CDE from the Solaris 2.5.1 Operating Environment Orphaned By An Upgrade to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4260819)

This problem affects systems running the Solaris 2.5.1 and the Solaris 2.5.1 unbundled CDE operating environments. However, these systems are only affected if the unbundled CDE has been relocated to a directory other than /usr/dt. The CDE relocation on these systems has been accomplished by creating a symbolic link in /usr/dt that points to the relocated CDE.

When you upgrade to the Solaris 8 operating environment, CDE is also reinstalled in /usr/dt, and the link to the relocated version is removed. The relocated CDE itself is not removed and is therefore orphaned.

If the upgrade involves the reallocation of file systems, the upgrade may fail because the reallocation mechanism does not account for the extra space needed in /usr/dt for the new version of CDE. This failure is not visible until the upgrade has been completed. If this failure occurs, the upgrade log will include a number of messages indicating that more space is needed for an upgrade.

Workaround: Uninstall the relocated CDE before you start upgrading to the Solaris 8 operating environment. This can be accomplished by using the install-cde script from the Solaris 2.5.1 CDE CD. This script should be run with the -uninstall flag to remove CDE.

Upgrading the Solaris 7 Operating Environment With Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 to Not Work (4274920)

If you installed WBEM 1.0 from the Solaris Easy Access Server (SEAS) 3.0 CD-ROM on a system running the Solaris 7 operating environment, you must remove the WBEM 1.0 packages before upgrading to the Solaris 8 operating environment. The Solaris WBEM Services 2.0 do not start after upgrading the Solaris 7 operating environment with WBEM 1.0 to the Solaris 8 operating environment. The Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager fails to start. The following error message is displayed:

File not found: /opt/sadm/lib/wbem/cimom.jar

Workaround: Use the pkgrm command to remove the WBEM 1.0 packages before upgrading to the Solaris 8 operating environment.

1. Use the pkginfo command to check if the WBEM 1.0 packages are installed by typing:

   % pkginfo | grep WBEM

2. Become superuser.

3. Use the pkgrm command to remove all WBEM 1.0 packages by typing:

   # pkgrm SUNWwbapi # pkgrm SUNWwbcor # pkgrm SUNWwbdev # pkgrm SUNWwbdoc # pkgrm SUNWwbm

Disk Space Requirements Can Be Exaggerated by the Upgrade Process (4041733)

The upgrade program can exaggerate by as much as 30 percent the amount of space required for upgrades to systems with Solaris software. Systems affected by this problem cannot be upgraded without deselecting packages or finding more space.

Workaround: You can manually reallocate disk space among file systems or use the Software Customization menu to remove software packages that are not needed.

SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)

The upgrade log may state that the SUNWeeudt package was only partially installed.

     Doing pkgadd of SUNWeeudt to /.
     ERROR: attribute verification of 
     </a/usr/dt/appconfig/types/ru_RU.KOI8-R/datatypes.dt> 
     failed pathname does not exist ...

     Installation of <SUNWeeudt> partially failed.
     pkgadd return code = 2  

Workaround: Perform the following steps after the upgrade has been completed.

1. Remove the SUNWeeudt package by typing:

   # pkgrm SUNWeeudt

2. Add the SUNWeeudt package by typing:

   # pkgadd SUNWeeudt