Upgrade Bugs

This section describes upgrade bugs. Some bugs might occur while you are upgrading to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release. Other bugs might occur after you have completed upgrading.

Migrating an ncrs Attached Driver to the glm Driver

The ncrs driver for certain LSI/Symbios parallel SCSI host bus adapters (HBA) is no longer supported in the current Oracle Solaris release. The glm driver is available and can support the same adapters as the ncrs driver.

To migrate to the glm driver, follow these steps:

1. Follow the steps up to 3c in the procedure, How to Upgrade to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release.

2. If you accept the terms of the Oracle Solaris 11 Express license, upgrade your system, and explicitly accept the license. Also, explicitly specify a new boot environment name.

   # pkg image-update --accept --be-name solaris-glm-1

3. Mount the new boot environment.

   # beadm mount solaris-glm-1 /mnt

4. Use the awk command to change any instances of ncrs in the old boot environment's /etc/driver_aliases file to glm. These entries should be appended to the new boot environment's /mnt/etc/driver_aliases file.

   # awk '$1 == "ncrs" { print "glm", $2 }' \ /etc/driver_aliases >> /mnt/etc/driver_aliases

5. Update the boot archive of the new boot environment.

   # bootadm update-archive -R /mnt

6. Unmount the new boot environment.

   # beadm unmount solaris-glm-1

7. Reboot your system to boot into the updated boot environment.

image-update Results in Driver Removal of Policy Warnings (9568)

While you are upgrading a system to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, you might see messages similar to the following for various drivers:

driver (aggr) upgrade 
(removal of policy'read_priv_set=net_rawaccess
 write_priv_set=net_rawaccess) failed: minor node spec required.

Workaround: Ignore the messages.

Driver Action Gets Confused by driver_aliases Entries Not Covered by an Action (10630)

While you are upgrading a system to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, you might see messages similar to the following:

The 'pcieb' driver shares the alias 
'pciexclass,060400' with the 'pcie_pci' driver, 
but the system cannot determine how the latter was delivered. 
Its entry on line 2 in /etc/driver_aliases has been commented out. 
If this driver is no longer needed, it may be removed by booting into the 
'solaris-2' boot environment and invoking 'rem_drv pcie_pci' 
as well as removing line 2 from /etc/driver_aliases or, 
before rebooting, mounting the 'Solaris-2' boot environment 
and running 'rem_drv -b <mountpoint>pcie_pci' and removing line 2 
from <mountpoint>/etc/driver_aliases.

Workaround: Ignore the messages.

image-update Produces Warnings About the etc/sma/snmp/mibs Directory (10778)

While you are upgrading a system to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, you might see warning messages similar to the following:

Warning - directory etc/sma/snmp/mibs not empty
Contents preserved in 
/tmp/tmpCfxHEd/var/pkg/lost+found/etc/sma/snmp/mibs-20100604T013846Z

Workaround: Ignore the messages.

Missing xfs Service Causes inetd Errors After You Upgrade From OpenSolaris 2009.06 (11602)

When you boot your system for the first time after upgrading from the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release to the current release, you might see messages similar to the following: :

inetd[5503]: Failed to update state of instance 
svc:/application/x11/xfs:default in repository: entity not found
Failed to get instance

Workaround: Ignore the messages.

Upgrade to the Latest Release With Little Spare Memory Fails (9388)

When you update all the installed packages, the operation might fail due to too little memory.

Workaround: Use one or more of the following options to complete the procedure successfully:

• Before performing the update, close as many programs as possible.

• Before performing the image-update, update the packaging software. Then when you perform the image-update, use the - f option to reduce the memory required. The -f option skips the client up-to-date check when updating all installed packages.

  # pkg install SUNWipkg
  # pkg list package/pkg 2> /dev/null && pkg install package/pkg
  # pkg image-update -f

• Terminate the window system by using the svcadm disable -t gdm command. Perform the operation on the console or when you are logged in remotely.

• Start the system in single-user mode before performing the update.

• Add more swap space or more RAM to the system.

Zones Cloned by Using zoneadm clone Can Cause a Snapshot Name Collision When You Activate a Boot Environment (10990)

The use of the zoneadm clone command to create zones can cause a snapshot name collision, which can lead to a failure or an infinite loop when you activate a boot environment. Although this bug has been fixed in this release, you may encounter this issue while upgrading from OpenSolaris 2009.06 to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release.

Workaround: Before using image-update to update your system to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, run the zoneadm detach command for each zone in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 boot environment.

To reattach the zones:

1. Update the image.

   # pkg image-update

2. Boot into the boot environment that was created by image-update.

3. Run the zoneadm attach -u command for each zone in the new boot environment.