[indiana-discuss] apps installing to /opt -> beadm create not working

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Fri Oct 31 08:44:23 PDT 2008


A. Stecker wrote:
> hi,
> 
> as mentioned here http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3452 a populated /opt directory prevents beadm create from working. virtualbox setup created a folder called virtualbox into the /opt directory and i can't create an new BE without moving the virtualbox folder to some temporary location (and back to /opt after the update, to get vb working again). what's the right work around to this problem? went something wrong on my virtualbox installation? (one note: i'm not working on my latest BE due to atapi problems with builds >98)

How did you install VirtualBox?  From SVR4 packages?  From a tarball? 
 From an IPS repository?

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Shawn Walker



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