Installation Bugs That May Occur During an Upgrade

All bugs described in this section only occur if you perform an upgrade.

Multiple Architecture Server Cannot Be Patched (1249343)

After upgrading a server with diskless clients of more than one SPARC kernel architecture, such as a sun4u server with diskless sun4c, sun4d, and sun4m clients, the SUNWkvm packages for clients whose kernel architectures differ from that of the server cannot be patched.

Workaround: Manually add all of the SUNWkvm packages before applying any patches that affect them.

# pkgadd -d  SUNWkvm.*

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 the Solaris software. Therefore, it prevents many systems from being 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.

Upgrade exits with : Error: upgrade_script terminated abnormally.

This problem occurs when you have to reallocate disk space. The upgrade_log displays a syntax error in upgrade_script.

Workaround: Perform the following steps:

1. Find the line that contains "syntax error" in the upgrade script:

   /tmp/root/var/sadm/system/logs/upgrade_log

   For example:

   syntax error is located at line 3519: `fi' unexpected

2. Edit the following file by using vi(1). (Using the vi text editor is recommended because of the size of the file).

   /a/var/sadm/system/admin/upgrade_script

3. Go to the line containing the syntax error by using the vi(1) command 3519 G.

4. Look above this line for a fi that is on a line by itself above the line that has the syntax error. This should be located below a log progress statement. For example:

   if [ $? = 0 ] ; then chgrp 1 $base/export/root/petrel/etc/rmmount.conf; fi logprogress 4073 none fi <------ This is the extra fi in upgrade_script if [ 4074 -gt $resumecnt ] ; then rm -f ${base}///var/sadm/install_data/CLUSTER rm -f ${base}///var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER echo CLUSTER=SUNWCall > ${base}///var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER logprogress 4074 none fi

5. Remove fi by typing x twice in the vi editor.

6. Save the following script:

   /tmp/root/var/sadm/system/logs/upgrade_log upgrade

7. Halt the system by typing:

   # halt 0

8. Restart the installation by typing one of the following commands:

   OK> boot net

   or

   OK> boot cdrom

9. Select Upgrade again.

The installation should now complete.