[15344] in Athena Bugs
Misc Solaris q's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Aug 3 02:35:38 1997
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:35:36 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
While installing WABI 2.2D on portnoy (Athena Solaris 8.1.7),
I ran across some oddnesses that seem worth reporting.
1) /opt is not local. This means that if you try to install
any standard sort of Solaris package that installs files in
/opt, you lose.
It seems to me that /opt should be a directory on local disk
that is populated with symlinks to /os/opt/foobar. Right now, /opt
is:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 9 Aug 9 1996 /opt -> /os/./opt
2) It looks like /var/opt exists, and is a symlink to /srvd/opt.
This seems peculiar since /srvd/opt does not exist. Also, /os/var/opt
seems to exist and is empty. "Curious and curiouser".
3) /etc/opt is a symlink to /os/etc/opt. Typically packages which install
in /etc/opt do so because the items they install must be present
on the root partition at boot time. As such, any such packages
are likely to fail in this environment. Fortunately, the only two
are:
system SUNWleo ZX System Software (Device Driver)
system PFUaga AG-10 Device Driver
neither of which are common hardware around here.
4) When I installed WABI, I got the error:
| ## Verifying package dependencies.
| WARNING:
| The <SUNWcsd> package "Core Sparc Devices" is a
| prerequisite package and is not completely installed.
This seemed odd. It appears to be another case of the package database
being potentially corrupt, or perhaps it's simply that the package was
"not completely installed". Here's what pkginfo says on an Athena solaris
machine:
[portnoy!jhawk] /var/tmp# pkginfo -l SUNWcsd
PKGINST: SUNWcsd
NAME: Core Solaris Devices
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 11.5.1,REV=96.05.02.21.09
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DESC: core entries for /dev and /devices needed for the initial boot of Solaris
PSTAMP: bread960502211338
INSTDATE: Sep 03 1996 11:04
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: partially installed
FILES: 35 installed pathnames
22 partially installed pathnames
2 shared pathnames
11 directories
On a vanilla Solaris 2.5.1 machine, however:
trophy-case.bbnplanet.com% pkginfo -l SUNWcsd
PKGINST: SUNWcsd
NAME: Core Solaris Devices
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 11.5.1,REV=96.05.02.21.09
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DESC: core entries for /dev and /devices needed for the initial boot of Solaris
PSTAMP: bread960502211338
INSTDATE: Jul 18 1996 13:01
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 57 installed pathnames
2 shared pathnames
11 directories
This suggests something is wrong here. It doesn't appear to have anything
to do with the bread, though.
--jhawk
