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Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release Notes Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
Oracle Solaris Desktop Accessibility
Initial Root Password After Live CD Installation
Upgrading to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release
How to Upgrade to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release
First Packaging Operation After Upgrade Removes Hundreds of Empty Packages (14507)
Users Created During Text Installation Can End Up With an Incorrect Password (6998650)
Installation Fails on the SAS JBOD Device (11999)
x86: Live CD Installation Might Hang on Certain Systems (16216)
SPARC: Text Installer Unusable on Systems Equipped With XVR-2500 Graphics Cards (6961487)
Renaming a Busy Boot Environment Might Fail (1685)
Automated Installer Fails If ZFS Pool rpool Exists on the System (3783)
Distribution Constructor Does Not Recognize ZFS File System Mount Points for Build Areas (3947)
Exception Message Generated by the Distribution Constructor Upon Successful Termination (4589)
Creating Multiple Pools With the Same Name Confuses the ZFS Boot Process (5270)
installadm create-service Should Have an Option to Specify IP Address Passed to DHCP Config (6922)
x86: DM_CTYPE Attribute Is Set to unknown for SATA Controllers Handled by the sata Driver (6558646)
Automated Installer Manifests Are Installed World-Readable (15362)
Migrating an ncrs Attached Driver to the glm Driver
image-update Results in Driver Removal of Policy Warnings (9568)
Driver Action Gets Confused by driver_aliases Entries Not Covered by an Action (10630)
image-update Produces Warnings About the etc/sma/snmp/mibs Directory (10778)
Missing xfs Service Causes inetd Errors After You Upgrade From OpenSolaris 2009.06 (11602)
Upgrade to the Latest Release With Little Spare Memory Fails (9388)
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.
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:
Follow the steps up to 3c in the procedure, How to Upgrade to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release.
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
Mount the new boot environment.
# beadm mount solaris-glm-1 /mnt
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
Update the boot archive of the new boot environment.
# bootadm update-archive -R /mnt
Unmount the new boot environment.
# beadm unmount solaris-glm-1
Reboot your system to boot into the updated boot environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Update the image.
# pkg image-update
Boot into the boot environment that was created by image-update.
Run the zoneadm attach -u command for each zone in the new boot environment.
Note - After using this workaround, the boot environment you updated from no longer has zones attached to it.