Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 8/10/07, Ethan Quach <Ethan.Quach at sun.com> wrote: > >> So are we talking about /var/sadm on the running system getting lost or the >> /var/sadm in your wanboot miniroot image mounted at /mnt ? If the latter, >> then there might be an explanation (or at least a known issue that explains >> it). In the miniroot image, ./var is symlinked to ./tmp/root/var and >> there is a >> known issue in the pkg tools where if the pkg delivers something into >> ./var, it >> breaks that symlink. >> > > Taking a look at a broken wanboot image (not sure if this is the same > one or not) > > # find var > var > var/svc > var/svc/manifest > var/svc/manifest/system > var/sadm > var/sadm/pkg > # find tmp/root/var | wc -l > 3346 > # cat tmp/root/var/sadm/patch/.patchaddLock > 3643 > > Note that the var symlink was broken and I was left with a small > skeleton directory there.
The skeleton directory is a result of whatever was delivered into ./var from the pkg being added/removed, once the symlink was broken. > The likely culprit was patchadd, not pkgrm. > Did you run patchadd with -C -ethan > Mike > >
