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Sun update failure on machine with extra pkg instances
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Apr 27 12:37:28 2005
Message-Id: <200504271637.j3RGbEn9029963@anhedonia.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:37:14 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
The 9.4 update failed badly on one of my machines, due to the
existence of non-unique Sun package instances. Such instances
are the result of installing a Sun package, without first removing
an existing instance of the package; this creates a second instance
of the package, as evidenced by the existence of the package directory
/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWfoo.2. The machine that failed had such extra
instances due to various testing I had done for 9.3; an un-removed
package contained a kernel module that prevented the system from
booting Solaris 10.
I don't imagine there will be other machines with this problem, as
the 9.3 update explicitly blew away all package instances, but I
will work on a change to the update to protect against this case.
Bob
