Darren J Moffat wrote: > Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> Hi Darren, >> >> This is a known bug, well a generalized issue with live upgrade. There >> are several bugs opened about this: >> 6416068 lucreate doesn't work if a BE has disappeared due to the disk, >> and ludelete can't clean it up >> 6450469 Failed lucreate attempt leaves cruft behind >> >> And probably more... > > Thanks. > >>> >>> It seems that from the error messages this was yet again caused by >>> the lofs mounts of libc - which I still maintain was a REALLY bad >>> solution to this problem ( ere have been so many issues in various >>> parts of the system as a result of this). >>> >> Can't find any bugs on this. I assume you are referring to lucopy >> doing the lofs mount of libc? It looks to me like it does that anyway. >> sarah > > I mean the whole concept of using an lofs mount for $HWCAP/$PLATFORM > variants of libc, it has caused issues with GNOME, flash, live upgrade > and just looks strange! >
So what would you do, given that we had to change out big chunks of libc and not just mem* routines ala sparc? I know of the flash problem.... what was gnome's problem? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
