[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade to oi_151a8 fails on one machine

[Carl Brewer]

On 14/08/2013 8:36 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> The first machine upgraded from oi_151a7 to oi_151a8 with no problems.
> The command I used was: pkg image-update --be-name oi_151a8 .  It
> updated 879 packages into a new BE.  It looked good when I rebooted
> into that BE.
>
> The second gave me trouble.  I used the same command, but it only
> updated 37 packages.  When I rebooted into the new BE, the kernel
> version was still oi_151a7 .  I rebooted back to the old BE and
> destroyed the new one.
>
> In October, I had upgraded this second machine from oi_151a5 to
> oi_151a7, with no problems.  It updated 947 packages that time.
>
> I did notice that the package `entire' was missing on the second
> machine, although it was present on the first one.  I had been
> upgrading this second machine periodically, starting with
> opensolaris-126 .  I suppose I must have removed `entire' somewhere
> along the way.  Perhaps that was the cause of the problem, but why
> did the upgrade to oi_151a7 succeed?
>
> I tried adding the correct version of `entire' for oi_151a7, in a new
> BE, but `pkg image-update -n' still told me it would update only 37
> packages.
>
> What could be preventing this upgrade from working?  What should I do
> next?

I don't know, but I have seen the same problem.  I have two OI boxes, 
one is old (dates back to OS 90 or something ... 5 years or so and has 
been updated many, many times through pkg image-updates) and the other 
was built with OI 151a7 a few months ago.

The "old" one displayed the same problem you describe, the "new" one was 
fine.  I had made the new one a hipster version in the mean time though, 
and then pulled it back to 151a8 dev release three days ago.