[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot environments blow away configsettings on reboot

[Dan Swartzendruber]

LOL

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason J. W. Williams [mailto:jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:30 PM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot environments blow away
configsettings on reboot

Figured this out. NWAM strikes again.

-J

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
<jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> By limiting which packages I install and adding the "--deny-new-be"
> flag to the "pkg install" runs I seem to have prevented new boot
> environments from being created. However, files like
> /etc/nsswitch.conf seem to revert to their original installed version
> after I reboot. Very confused by that given the lack of a new BE.
>
> -J
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
> <jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I'm having an issue where if I do the following steps, the result of
>> step 2 disappears after a reboot:
>>
>> 1.) pkg install <package_1>
>> 2.) Install LDAP config files into /var/ldap
>> 3.) pkg install <package_2>
>>
>> The issue appears to be that two new boot environments are created in
>> steps 1 and 2. After doing steps 1-3 everything looks fine, then
>> reboot, the last boot environment becomes active and the files in
>> /var/ldap disappear. What we're doing is configuring a server using
>> Chef. Any pointers would be very appreciated.
>>
>> -J
>>
>

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