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I'm trying to live upgrade my Sun Blade 1000 running B33 to B40 but I'm
running into problems.

First I find myself embarrassed for blank DVD's until tomorrow so I
have to use lofiadm. Shouldn't be a prob tho.....

I can create the new boot environment, but I cannot upgrade, I get this error:

# luupgrade -u -n sol110606 -s /upgrade/

Validating the contents of the media </upgrade/>.
The media is a standard Solaris media.
The media contains an operating system upgrade image.
The media contains <Solaris> version <11>.
Constructing upgrade profile to use.
Locating the operating system upgrade program.
Checking for existence of previously scheduled Live Upgrade requests.
Creating upgrade profile for BE <sol110606>.
Determining packages to install or upgrade for BE <sol110606>.
/usr/sbin/luupgrade:
/upgrade//Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc:
cannot execute
ERROR: Unable to parse software table of contents.
#

Problem files exists of course:

# ls -l
/upgrade/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
-r-xr-xr-x

1 root sys 4040 May 12 09:22
/upgrade/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
#

Any

guidance apart from don't be so bleeding cutting edge!

Steve

Steve wrote:
> I'm trying to live upgrade my Sun Blade 1000 running B33 to B40 but I'm
> running into problems.
>
> First I find myself embarrassed for blank DVD's until tomorrow so I have
> to use lofiadm. Shouldn't be a prob tho.....
>
> I can create the new boot environment, but I cannot upgrade, I get this
> error:
>
> # luupgrade -u -n sol110606 -s /upgrade/
>
> Validating the contents of the media </upgrade/>.
> The media is a standard Solaris media.
> The media contains an operating system upgrade image.
> The media contains <Solaris> version <11>.
> Constructing upgrade profile to use.
> Locating the operating system upgrade program.
> Checking for existence of previously scheduled Live Upgrade requests.
> Creating upgrade profile for BE <sol110606>.
> Determining packages to install or upgrade for BE <sol110606>.
> /usr/sbin/luupgrade:
> /upgrade//Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc:
> cannot execute
> ERROR: Unable to parse software table of contents.
> #
>
> Problem files exists of course:
>
> # ls -l
> /upgrade/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
> -r-xr-xr-x
> 1 root sys 4040 May 12 09:22
> /upgrade/Solaris_11/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
> #
>
> Any
> guidance apart from don't be so bleeding cutting edge!
>
> Steve
>
>
>

to use live upgrade to upgrade to a newer Solaris release, you must
first install the newer live upgrade packages in your running boot
environment from the install media. Did you do this?

I.e. execute:
$ /cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s0/Solaris_10/Tools/Installers/liveupgrade20

HTH,
Tom

>>
>
> to use live upgrade to upgrade to a newer Solaris release, you must
> first install the newer live upgrade packages in your running boot
> environment from the install media. Did you do this?
>
> I.e. execute:
> $ /cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s0/Solaris_10/Tools/Installers/liveupgrade20
>
> HTH,
> Tom

No I didn't do that, I foolishly assumed that such a small difference
is version wouldn't matter.

However on trying the run this installer I'm getting a 'cannot execute
binary file error' I'm beginning to think my DVD image is corrupted or
lofiadm is mounting it wrongly or with weird perms or something.

And I forgot to pick up some DVD-R's from the shop! Arggghhh!!

Steve

Hi Steve, I make a mini how-to of LiveUpgrade, is in spanish but it is
not difficult.

Thread: Realizar un Ugrade via LiveUpgrade
URL:
http://groups.google.es/group/solari...04fb435b5b9983

Mariano


Steve ha escrito:

> >>
> >
> > to use live upgrade to upgrade to a newer Solaris release, you must
> > first install the newer live upgrade packages in your running boot
> > environment from the install media. Did you do this?
> >
> > I.e. execute:
> > $ /cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s0/Solaris_10/Tools/Installers/liveupgrade20
> >
> > HTH,
> > Tom
>
> No I didn't do that, I foolishly assumed that such a small difference
> is version wouldn't matter.
>
> However on trying the run this installer I'm getting a 'cannot execute
> binary file error' I'm beginning to think my DVD image is corrupted or
> lofiadm is mounting it wrongly or with weird perms or something.
>
> And I forgot to pick up some DVD-R's from the shop! Arggghhh!!
>
> Steve

On 2006-07-17 22:19:34 +0100, "Germen" <mariano.obarrio@gmail.com> said:

> Hi Steve, I make a mini how-to of LiveUpgrade, is in spanish but it is
> not difficult.
>
> Thread: Realizar un Ugrade via LiveUpgrade
> URL:
> http://groups.google.es/group/solari...04fb435b5b9983
>
> Mariano
>


Thnakd Mariano but I'm pretty ok with Live Upgrade, just my particular
issue is cuasing problems since I've no DVD/CD, only the mounted image.

I'm wondering if it's becuase lofiadm doesn't mount the DVD slices like
vold does, ie I'm used to seeing S0 to S6 IIRC.

In fact, I've just inserted my Sol100106 DVD and the liveupgrade
installer is a shell script not data as it seems to be on sol110606, so
either I have corruption or lofiadm is playing sily beggars.

Steve

Steve wrote:
> On 2006-07-17 22:19:34 +0100, "Germen" <mariano.obarrio@gmail.com> said:
>
>> Hi Steve, I make a mini how-to of LiveUpgrade, is in spanish but it is
>> not difficult.
>>
>> Thread: Realizar un Ugrade via LiveUpgrade
>> URL:
>> http://groups.google.es/group/solari...04fb435b5b9983
>>
>>
>> Mariano
>>
>
>
> Thnakd Mariano but I'm pretty ok with Live Upgrade, just my particular
> issue is cuasing problems since I've no DVD/CD, only the mounted image.
>

> I'm wondering if it's becuase lofiadm doesn't mount the DVD slices like
> vold does, ie I'm used to seeing S0 to S6 IIRC.
>

You are right: lofiadm does not support mounting all slices of a hsfs
image. On the 'net there are multiple description how one can extract
the other slices. But it is way easier to write the image to a dvd and
insert it into a drive.

e.g. look here: http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/isosetup.html

> In fact, I've just inserted my Sol100106 DVD and the liveupgrade
> installer is a shell script not data as it seems to be on sol110606, so
> either I have corruption or lofiadm is playing sily beggars.
>
> Steve
>
>

Good luck,
Tom

On 2006-07-18 13:23:03 +0100, Thomas Maier-Komor <thomas@maier-komor.de> said:

> Steve wrote:
>> On 2006-07-17 22:19:34 +0100, "Germen" <mariano.obarrio@gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> Hi Steve, I make a mini how-to of LiveUpgrade, is in spanish but it is
>>> not difficult.
>>>
>>> Thread: Realizar un Ugrade via LiveUpgrade
>>> URL:
>>> http://groups.google.es/group/solari...04fb435b5b9983
>>>
>>>
>>> Mariano
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thnakd Mariano but I'm pretty ok with Live Upgrade, just my particular
>> issue is cuasing problems since I've no DVD/CD, only the mounted image.
>>
>
>> I'm wondering if it's becuase lofiadm doesn't mount the DVD slices like
>> vold does, ie I'm used to seeing S0 to S6 IIRC.
>>
>
> You are right: lofiadm does not support mounting all slices of a hsfs
> image. On the 'net there are multiple description how one can extract
> the other slices. But it is way easier to write the image to a dvd and
> insert it into a drive.
>
> e.g. look here: http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/isosetup.html
>
>> In fact, I've just inserted my Sol100106 DVD and the liveupgrade
>> installer is a shell script not data as it seems to be on sol110606, so
>> either I have corruption or lofiadm is playing sily beggars.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>
> Good luck,
> Tom

Yes I found that page and ran the script, it extracted one slice and
mounted it along with the rest of the DVD as one slice. Still didn't
work tho!

I am now restocked with blank DVD-R's so I'm trying it that way. If it
works it does seem lofiadm is mi-mounting the iso incorrectly.

Steve

Right, firstly it WAS a corrupted download, fist I've ever had. Live
and learn!

Redownloaded, mounted as iso with lofiadm, upgraded live update to b40
version on DVD, bad move, got out of memory errors when allocating
slices for the new BE. So I downgrade LU to b33 and no problems
whatsoever, went like a dream!

Thanks for the help guys!!

Steve