[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing one package triggered upgrade

[Ryan Johnson]

On 17/07/2012 9:46 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
>
>> Now that I can respond more fully...
>>
>> What can I do to help troubleshoot or diagnose what is going on?
>>
>> The server involved has been pretty stable for quite a while. It is 
>> oi151a2. As it has been stable I haven't been updating it with each 
>> release. It is a semi production machine and so I tend to err on the 
>> conservative side with regard to updating it.
>
> The subject line from the other user is "Cannot _init zfs module after 
> upgrade".  He says that a boot environment from 151a3 was pulled in 
> and that the system would not subsequently reboot.
>
> It may be that the installed root pool version was 5000 rather than 28 
> and the boot environment from 151a3 does not handle that (a5 would be 
> needed).
Is this something the user can fix? Or is the packaging broken?

Ryan