[indiana-discuss] beadm problem (bug #5400)

[Dave Miner]

Robert Milkowski wrote:
> I hit http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5400
> 
> So I wanted to install SUNWgui-install and I got below errors.
> 
> # pkg install -v SUNWgui-install
> Creating Plan | Before evaluation:     
> UNEVALUATED:
> +pkg:/SUNWgui-install at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T223210Z
> 
> After evaluation:
> None -> pkg:/SUNWgui-install at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T223210Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWgnome-config at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T221507Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWdbus-bindings at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T220005Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWgnome-component at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T221455Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWgnome-libs at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T221919Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWhal at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T223214Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWpolkit at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T225033Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWgnome-audio at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T221212Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWgnome-vfs at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T222640Z
> None -> pkg:/SUNWgamin at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T214646Z
> Actuators:
>       restart_fmri: svc:/system/manifest-import:default
>       restart_fmri: svc:/application/desktop-cache/gconf-cache:default
>       restart_fmri: svc:/application/desktop-cache/mime-types-cache:default
> None
> DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
> Completed                                  10/10   2067/2067   13.03/13.03 
> 
> PHASE                                        ACTIONS
> Install Phase                              2638/2638 
> The Boot Environment opensolaris failed to be updated. A snapshot was taken before the failed attempt and is mounted here /tmp/tmp3-XGVF. Use 'beadm unmount opensolaris-1' and then 'beadm activate opensolaris-1' if you wish to boot to this BE.
> pkg: installation failed: Subprocess (('/usr/bin/svcprop', '-c', 'svc:/application/desktop-cache/gconf-cache:default')) non-zero exit code: ["svcprop: Pattern 'svc:/application/desktop-cache/gconf-cache:default' doesn't match any entities\n"]
> # 
> # svcs svc:/application/desktop-cache/gconf-cache:default
> svcs: Pattern 'svc:/application/desktop-cache/gconf-cache:default' doesn't match any instances
> STATE          STIME    FMRI
> #
> 
> 1 - looks like yet another dependency missing (on whatever package which would create svc:/application/desktop-cache/gconf-cache:default)
> 

Please file a bug on that.

> 2 - why did it try to create a new BE in a first place?

A snapshot is taken before the package installation, and if there's a 
failure, that snapshot is converted into a BE so that you can revert to 
the pre-failure state.

Dave