[osol-discuss] Used IPS, now system won't boot.

2008-06-19 Thread Brian Utterback
I installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 when it first came out. At some point, I followed some instructions to point the package manager to a SWAN internal OS repository mirror and installed from there. Later I discovered that although it was supposed to be a mirror, when I pointed the package

Re: [osol-discuss] Used IPS, now system won't boot.

2008-06-19 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/19 Brian Utterback [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay, knowing what I do about Solaris, I can accept that getting the updated packages wrong can brickify your system, but either the package manager needs to handle this for you, or put up a dialog in blinking red that says Danger: Warm brick

Re: [osol-discuss] Used IPS, now system won't boot.

2008-06-19 Thread James Carlson
Brian Utterback writes: Okay, so now I wanted to update to build 90. I tired update all again, and again it hung. So, I tried to update only the packages that are in the kernel update patch. Big mistake. The package manager happily updated the packages I requested, but after that I went to

Re: [osol-discuss] Used IPS, now system won't boot.

2008-06-19 Thread Maurizio Lombardi
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Brian Utterback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so now I wanted to update to build 90. I tired update all again, and again it hung. So, I tried to update only the packages that are in the kernel update patch. Big mistake. The package manager happily updated the