Thought you folks might need this someday too. Bottom line: be sure
you're getting DNS or you'll get complaints like
<TRANSFER_MOD_E May 28 17:40:58> Unable to initialize the pkg image area
at /a
in the install log.
good luck.
-jake
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Sweet, forget it -- now that it can resolve the repo, it's rolling. I
must have missed the mention of the DNS requirement in the install docs
-- maybe people assume that there's a DNS broadcasting service on the
net or something -- we don't have that here..
I should've realised it was working before the last 2 mails, but
couldn't see what was going on because /tmp/install_log is silent;
however, utilisation of /a is increasing, which I'm going to take as a
Good Thing.
Thanks for helping me get my mind right.
-jake
Jacob Ritorto wrote:
> OK, ignoring service fails. I couldn't resolve pkg.opensolaris.org, so
> I added a DNSserv option to my DHCP macro for this AI host. I now can
> resolve and hit pkg.opensolaris.org. So you're thinking that this error
> about /a is actually something complaining about not being able to hit
> the pkg repo?
>
> getting a connect on repo:80 from the failed install host...
>
> root at opensolaris:~# telnet pkg.opensolaris.org 80
> Trying 72.5.123.21...
> Connected to pkg.opensolaris.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
> thx all -- will summ back to list, unless we should be having this
> conversation publicly -- your call..
>
> jake
>
>
> Sundar Yamunachari wrote:
>> Jacob:
>>
>> Check the AI documentation at
>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/bothclient.html.
>> Your error looks similar to the error listed under the title "Unable
>> to Contact Valid Package Server Message". Can you check whether you
>> can reach the pkg.opensolaris.org from your client after failure?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sundar
>>
>> Jacob Ritorto wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> Installing os200906 on SunFire v440 with obp 4.22.33 but
>>> getting AI failure.
>>>
>>> Saw something indicating that I need to use dev, not release,
>>> so I changed the package authority on the install server and
>>> reimported the manifest -- still same error. So what does this
>>> indicate, a problem with the root zpool or an inability to hit the
>>> repository? I confirmed that /a exists and is writable as root. Any
>>> ideas on how to fix / progress past this?
>>>
>>> thx
>>> jake
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's the install_log:
>>>
>>> root at opensolaris:~# cat /tmp/install_log <AI May 28 17:15:08>
>>> /tmp/ai_combined_manifest.xml is a valid manifest
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:08> Auto reboot disabled
>>> <OM May 28 17:15:28> System reports enough physical memory for
>>> installation, swap is optional
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> Checking any disks for minimum recommended size
>>> of 12646 MB
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> Disk c7t0d0 size listed as 34732 MB
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> Default disk selected is c7t0d0
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> Disk name selected for installation is c7t0d0
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> no manifest slice information found
>>> <OM May 28 17:15:28> Timezone setting will be TZ=US/Pacific
>>> <OM May 28 17:15:28> Set timezone <AI May 28 17:15:28> installation
>>> will be performed from http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev (opensolaris.org)
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> installation will be performed from
>>> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev (opensolaris.org)
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> list of packages to be installed is:
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> entire
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> SUNWcsd
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> SUNWcs
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> babel_install
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> list of packages to be removed is:
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> babel_install
>>> <AI May 28 17:15:28> slim_install
>>> <OM May 28 17:15:28> Set zfs root pool device
>>> <OM May 28 17:15:28> creating zpool
>>> <OM May 28 17:15:33> /usr/sbin/zfs get -Hp -o value available rpool
>>> <OM May 28 17:15:33> Creating swap and dump on ZFS volumes
>>> <OM May 28 17:16:00> TI process completed successfully <OM May 28
>>> 17:16:00> Transfer process initiated
>>> <OM May 28 17:16:00> IPS transfer mechanism selected
>>> <OM May 28 17:16:00> IPS transfer phase initiated
>>> <TRANSFER_MOD_E May 28 17:16:03> Unable to initialize the pkg image
>>> area at /a
>>> <TRANSFER_MOD May 28 17:16:03> TValueError or TABort
>>> <OM May 28 17:16:03> IPS initialization phase 1 failed
>>> <OM May 28 17:16:03> Transfer failed with error -1
>>> <AI May 28 17:16:08> om_perform_install failed with error 114
>>> <AI May 28 17:16:08> Auto install failed
>>> root at opensolaris:~#
>>>
>>
>
