[indiana-discuss] Unable to activate new be after image-update

[Philip Antoniades]

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Hi,

I've installed 08.05 with compression (as indicated here:
http://blogs.sun.com/glagasse/entry/howto_enable_zfs_compression_when

but without the extra copies (I'm saving space) to a 4.6G virtualbox image.

Everything seemed to go swimmingly with the refresh, update of ipkg &
'entire' to release 86, but then took a turn south with my image-update:

se at mysql-opensolaris:~$ time pfexec pkg image-update
Checking that SUNWipkg (in '/') is up to date...
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
Completed                                  14/14     384/384     9.42/9.42

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Removal Phase                                555/555
Update Phase                                     6/6
Install Phase                              1168/1168
PHASE                                          ITEMS
Reading Existing Index                           8/8
Indexing Packages                              14/14
pkg: unable to activate opensolaris-1

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NOTE: Please review release notes posted at:
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real	7m8.925s
user	3m13.795s
sys	2m14.924s


I tried to soldier on with a grub update:

se at mysql-opensolaris:~$ beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint     Space
Name                 reboot                   Used
- ----          ------ --------- ----------     -----
opensolaris   yes    yes       /              2.73G
opensolaris-1 no     no        /tmp/tmp6Sk0an 59.46M
se at mysql-opensolaris:~$ pfexec
/tmp/tmp6Sk0an/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /tmp/tmp6Sk0an/
Creating GRUB menu in /tmp/tmp6Sk0an/
bootadm: biosdev command failed for disk: /dev/dsk/c4d0s0.
bootadm: is_bootdisk(): cannot determine BIOS disk ID 'hd?' for disk:
/dev/dsk/c4d0s0
bootadm: get_grubroot(): cannot get (hd?,?,?) for menu. menu not on
bootdisk: /dev/rdsk/c4d0s0
Installing grub on /dev/rdsk/c4d0s0
stage1 written to partition 0 sector 0 (abs 4096)
stage2 written to partition 0, 266 sectors starting at 50 (abs 4146)
se at mysql-opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm unmount opensolaris-1
se at mysql-opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm activate opensolaris-1
beadm: Unable to activate opensolaris-1
se at mysql-opensolaris:~$ beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space
Name                 reboot               Used
- ----          ------ --------- ---------- -----
opensolaris   yes    yes       /          2.73G
opensolaris-1 no     no        -          59.47M

have I gone wrong on my own or stumbled upon a bug? here's what zfs list
tells me:

se at mysql-opensolaris:~$ zfs list
NAME                                                      USED  AVAIL
REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool                                                    2.80G  1.20G
58.5K  /rpool
rpool at install                                            19.5K      -
 55K  -
rpool/ROOT                                               2.79G  1.20G
 18K  /rpool/ROOT
rpool/ROOT at install                                           0      -
 18K  -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris                                   2.73G  1.20G
2.00G  legacy
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris at install                            723M      -
1.28G  -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris at static:-:2008-08-15-11:55:57      29.3M      -
2.00G  -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1                                 61.3M  1.20G
1.92G  legacy
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1/opt                                 0  1.20G
1.83M  //opt
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris/opt                               1.85M  1.20G
1.83M  /opt
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris/opt at install                         24K      -
1.83M  -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris/opt at static:-:2008-08-15-11:55:57      0      -
1.83M  -
rpool/export                                              301K  1.20G
 19K  /export
rpool/export at install                                         0      -
 19K  -
rpool/export/home                                         282K  1.20G
264K  /export/home
rpool/export/home at install                                  18K      -
20.5K  -


Happy for any & all pointers.

thanks,

Philip

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Philip Antoniades
philip.antoniades at sun.com
MySQL Systems Engineering Manager, NA
Sun Microsystems
New York City
718.909.4549
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