On Oct 10, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * David Sechrest ([email protected]) wrote: >> We are seeing the following error on a Solaris 11 b175 system while trying >> to install some >> packages and need some help in resolving this. >> >> I did set BE_PRINT_ERR=true in order to display the extra debug info below: >> >> % pkg install pkg://solaris/runtime/java >> pkg://solaris/runtime/java/runtime64 pkg://solaris/library/java/host-config >> pkg://solaris/system/locale/en-extra pkg://solaris/system/locale/en_us >> pkg://solaris/system/locale pkg://solaris/library/java/javadb >> pkg://solaris/system/management/service-tag >> consolidation/cacao/cacao-incorporation library/cacao >> library/cacao/cacao-crews library/cacao/cacao-glassfish >> library/cacao/cacao-me >> Packages to install: 11 >> Create boot environment: No >> Create backup boot environment: Yes >> Services to change: 1 >> >> DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) >> Completed 11/11 2105/2105 43.9/43.9$<3> >> >> be_mount_callback: failed to mount dataset rpool/ROOT/solaris-1/var at >> /tmp/.be.sfaGvh/var: directory is not empty > > There's your problem. You have a separate dataset for /var
Which seems to be the way text installer configures zfs for b175 > which beadm > is trying to mount but can't because the /var directory in the BE > dataset isn't empty and ZFS won't allow you to mount a dataset on a > non-empty directory by default. So, have a look in /tmp/.be.sfaGvh/var > and see what's in there. It's empty % ls -la .be.sfaGvh/ total 32 drwx------ 2 root root 117 Oct 10 09:46 ./ drwxrwxrwt 17 root sys 1199 Oct 10 14:07 ../ This directory was created by the pkg install command (or some sub process of it). I just retried the command and if failed from the same error only this time it complained about a new dir, /tmp/.be.k9aiaj, which is also empty and didn't exist prior to executing the pkg install command. thanks Dave > That will tell you what's written to that dir > before the /var dataset could be mounted in the BE. > > Cheers, > > -- > Glenn --- David Sechrest Phone: (408)276-5800 x15800 Systems Management Email: [email protected] Oracle Corporation _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
