Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade

Upgrade From Solaris 8 Using the Installation CD Fails (4313749)

When you upgrade a system from the Solaris 8 operating environment to the Solaris 8 6/00 operating environment using the Solaris 8 Installation CD, the upgrade fails. The upgrade appears to proceed correctly, but the Installation Details screen indicates that the Solaris 8 software component did not install correctly. As a result of this failure, the system was not upgraded.

Workaround: Use the upgrade program on the Solaris 8 6/00 Software CD 1 of 2 to upgrade your system.

Obsolete Files in SUNWpmi and SUNWxwpls Are Not Removed When Upgrading From the Solaris 7 11/99 Operating Environment to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4313654)

When upgrading to the Solaris 8 operating environment, obsolete files in SUNWpmi or SUNWxwpls may not be removed. In addition, the permissions for the /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig file are different in the Solaris 8 operating environment than in past Solaris releases.

The presence of these obsolete files and the difference in file permissions for OWconfig do not cause problems on your upgraded system.

Workaround: Ignore the error messages that list obsolete SUNWpmi or SUNWxpls files that were not removed during the upgrade. Ignore the error messages indicating that the file permissions of /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig are different from what was expected.

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

If you installed WBEM 1.0 from the Solaris Easy Access Server (SEAS) 3.0 CD 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

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