System Configuration Issues

This section describes system configuration issues in the Oracle Solaris 11.1 release.

Custom SMF Site Profiles Should Be Placed in a Subdirectory (7074277)

When an Oracle Solaris instance is unconfigured, the custom SMF site profiles in the /etc/svc/profile/site directory are deleted.

Workaround: During unconfiguration, place the custom site profiles to be preserved in a subdirectory of the /etc/svc/profile/site directory.

sysconfig configure Command With the -c Option Flattens Directory Tree (7094123)

For system reconfiguration purposes, the sysconfig configure command has a -c option that can take a directory as a parameter. This directory can contain subdirectories with system configuration profiles in them.

Due to the flattening of the directory structure, if any files within the directory tree have the same name, then one of these files is used to reconfigure the system. As a result, the system would be partially reconfigured using one of the profiles. For example, assume that you have the following directory structure:

directory-name/profiles1/sc_profile.xml
directory-name/profiles2/sc_profile.xml
directory-name/profiles3/sc_profile.xml

If you execute the sysconfig command with the -c option, the system is partially reconfigured by using only one of the profiles.

# sysconfig configure -c directory-name

Workaround: Ensure that each profile has an unique name regardless of its location in the directory tree. For example:

directory-name/profiles1/sc_profile_a.xml
directory-name/profiles2/sc_profile_b.xml
directory-name/profiles3/sc_profile_c.xml

SPARC: System Fails to Boot an iSCSI LUN on an iSCSI Storage Array (7148479)

Oracle Solaris fails to boot an iSCSI LUN on an iSCSI storage array. The following error message is displayed:

OpenBoot 4.33.5.a, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #10027306.
Ethernet address 0:b:5d:e2:1:2a, Host ID: 8099012a.

Rebooting with command: boot
100 Mbps full duplex  Link up
Boot device: net:host-ip=10.129.158.53,
iscsi-target-ip=10.129.158.87,
iscsi-target-name=iqn.2002-03.com.pillardata:axiom.ssn.a002880bjb
File and args: kmdb
100 Mbps full duplex  Link up
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
ERROR: /packages/obp-tftp: Could not open /iscsi-hba/disk

Evaluating:

Boot load failed

{0} ok

Workaround: If the iSCSI boot parameters are too long, modify them as network boot parameters.

For example, the command to perform an iSCSI boot in Open Boot PROM (OBP) mode is:

{0} ok boot net:'iSCSI boot parameters'

where net is a device alias for a value similar to /pci@780/pci@0/pci@1/network@0.

The iSCSI boot string is therefore very long and the string can easily reach the 255–byte limitation.

/pci@780/pci@0/pci@1/network@0:host-ip=10.129.158.53,
subnet-mask=255.255.255.0,router-ip=10.129.158.1,iscsi-target-ip=10.129.158.87,
iscsi-target-name=iqn.2002-03.com.pillardata:axiom.ssn.a002880,
iscsi-initiator-id=iqn.1986-03.com.sun:01:002128bd2fa0.

To boot your system on an iSCSI LUN, modify the iSCSI boot parameters as network boot parameters.

{0} ok setenv network-boot-arguments host-ip=client-IP,

router-ip=router-ip,subnet-mask=mask-value,iscsi-target-ip=Target-IP,
iscsi-target-name=iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:iscsiboot,
iscsi-initiator-id=iqn.1986-03.com.sun:01:002128bd2fa0,iscsi-lun=0