[OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update causes pkg to crash with "File exists" error for a man page

[Chris Ridd]

On 12 Jan 2011, at 11:56, Gary Gendel wrote:

> Ok!  I got around this problem by hacking the pkg code (legacy.py) to recover from this problem.  What happens is that it crashes when it tries to create a hard link and the file already exists.  So I trapped this exception, removed the file and did the hard link.
> 
> Now I've got a oi_148 installation.  However, it seems to have some issues.
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> 1) Both cpus are being pounded continuously.  mpstat shows > 90% on one and > 80% on the other used by "sys".  ps doesn't show any process using more than 0.5% total cpu!
> 2) Something changed with libusb.  I can't get apcupsd running because it crashes in this library in a strchr() call when initializing the usb connection.  It shows a SIGSEGV permission problem.
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> I had to go back to 134b because I can't find who is using the cpus.

Try intrstat? ISTR reading about a dtrace script to detect lots of short-lived processes.

Cheers,

Chris