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Solaris Express Release Notes

SPARC: Installing a Solaris Flash Archive Causes Sun4v System to Hang (6411690)

If you use the flarcreate command to create a Solaris Flash archive and use the default pax copy option, the installation of the archive fails on a Sun4v system. The archive failure occurs during the retrieval of the archive. This failure affects the T1000 model only.

The following error message is displayed.


Extracted  710.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive)
Extracted  711.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive)
Extracted  712.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive)
Extracted  713.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive)
Extracted  714.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive)
Extracted  715.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive)
Extracted  716.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive)
         (This hangs and will never complete)

Workaround: Create the archive by using the -L cpio option. See the following example:


# flarcreate -n test.flar.sun4v.cpio -L cpio -c
 /net/server/export1/rw/test.flar.sun4v.cpio