[OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

[Albert Lee]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Kostas Oikonomou <ko at research.att.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install the live CD on a Dell 6510 laptop. The installation
> fails fairly early on, with a message to the effect that libfmevent.so
> cannot be found:
>
> ld.so.1: svc.startd: fatal: libfmevent.so.1: open failed: No such file or
> directory
>
> Has anyone else seen this, and is there anything to be done?
>

This indicates an attempt to report an error to FMA early in boot, but
there is a bug (probably  http://www.illumos.org/issues/562 ) which
prevents FMA from working a this stage so you don't get the actual
error message. Most likely cause is corruption on the DVD.

-Albert