lucreate :zone Feature Does Not Work on Whole Root Zones (6526238)

The lucreate :zone feature does not work on whole root zones when a whole root non-global zone in the parent boot environment has a dedicated filesystem. Bits of the dedicated filesystem in the whole root zone will not be copied to the target zone in the alternate boot environment. The following error message is displayed:

Creating shared file system mount points.
Copying root of zone havana-z1>.
Copying /tests> in zone havana-z1>.
egrep: syntax error

This message essentially means that you have a partially created whole root zone in the newly created boot environment.

Workaround: Copy the bits of the whole root zone's dedicated filesystem manually to the target zone in the alternate boot environment.