[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot _init zfs module after upgrade

[Ryan Johnson]

Hi all,

I'm new to OpenIndiana, and am hitting a problem that doesn't seem to be 
on Google anywhere:

I downloaded the latest oi151a release ISO today and installed it on an 
Intel x86_64 machine under VMWare. The install worked fine, but as soon 
as I tried to install any package, it pulled in an upgrade to 151a3 that 
includes a new boot environment. Unfortunately, the new environment 
can't boot, and loops endlessly between the grub menu and crashing.

The error is "Cannot _init zfs module", after complaints that 
/kernel/fs/amd64/zfs has the following undefined symbols: fnvlist_alloc, 
fnvlist_add_nvlist, fnvlist_free, fnvlist_add_boolean, and vmem_qcache_reap.

The offending command was:
> ryan at dtrace:~$ which hg
> which: no hg in (/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin)
> ryan at dtrace:~$ sudo pkg install mercurial
> Password:
>                Packages to install:     3
>                 Packages to update:    53
>            Create boot environment:   Yes
> DOWNLOAD                                  PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
> Completed                                56/56   7567/7567 98.4/98.4
>
> PHASE                                        ACTIONS
> Removal Phase                                164/164
> Install Phase                              3323/3323
> Update Phase                               5671/5671
>
> PHASE                                          ITEMS
> Package State Update Phase                   109/109
> Package Cache Update Phase                     53/53
> Image State Update Phase                         2/2
>
> A clone of openindiana exists and has been updated and activated.
> On the next boot the Boot Environment openindiana-2 will be mounted on 
> '/'.
> Reboot when ready to switch to this updated BE.
(the openindiana-2 BE is the second failed attempt)

Any ideas? If I didn't know better I'd say this was a packaging error, 
but I really have no clue what the problem might be...

Thanks,
Ryan