[OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I upgrade from 151a7 to 151a9 ?

[Stephen S. Jones]

OpenHoosiers,
Something else which can complicate updating from 151a7 is hipster.  If you have "gone hipster" on a 151a7 installation, then your work is more complicated.  I have successfully upgraded a hipster 151a7 installation through a8 dev to a9 dev.  I would not be able to retrace my steps precisely, but generally, I did the following:
* Mount a Boot Environment so to work with it offline: # beadm mount theBEname /mnt/mountDir
* Update this offline Boot Environment using the -R switch in pkg.
* Identify offensive packages: # pkg -R /mnt/mountDir update -n
* In pkg, --reject offensive packages.  At this point, I was able to continue updating by ...
# pkg -R /mnt/mountDir update -- reject gdm at 0.5.11-0.151.1.9 *@*-0.151.1.9
* Update of gdm will fail if user gdm is gone from /etc/passwrd, /etc/shadow, or /etc/group
So from within that BE: # user add -c "GDM Reserved UID" -g 50 -u 50 -d /var/lib/gdm gdm
then ... # groupadd -g 50 gdm
/etc/shadow should look like ... gdm:*LK*:::::::
* If possible, occasionally run pkg fix --accept
* Look in svcs to see that gdm is enabled to run. If not, then ...
# svcadm enable gdm

And as Udo said, ensure that gvfs is installed.

Be patient!  The iterative process took me a couple of weeks with much study and reading of man pages.
Godspeed
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se]
Sent: Wed 2014-02-19 09:44
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I upgrade from 151a7 to 151a9 ?
 
This is basically my7 experience, too.

And no one seems to have any idea about why these Gnome problems ACTUALLY 
occur.


On 2014-02-19 15:09, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:
> Not to blame anyone, but IMO every next OI release becomes less stable 
> than previous...
>
> The latest release which works stable for me is 151a7. 151a8 also 
> worked, though I could not configure network interface using GUI tool 
> in it (after disabling "nwam" and enabling "default").
>
> Then 151a9 was released. After upgrading my 32-bit production server, 
> it simply did not boot. It gone into infinite boot loop at the very 
> early stage of the boot process. OK, who needs a decade-old 32-bit 
> hardware (which though worked like a clockwork with 151a7, and had 3GB 
> of RAM, not the very minimum)... I have upgraded my hardware. Now it 
> is 64-bit.
>
> I have started from 151a7, not 8 (to avoid hassle with setting static 
> IP address manually in various config files - I could miss something 
> and spend much more time to do this simple setting). OK, 151a7 is 
> working fine. Upgrading to 151a9... GNOME degraded. No upper toolbar, 
> no lower status bar, no Nimbus theme, just background image and mouse 
> pointer. Right-click menu is working though.
>
> There was an advice to reinstall gvfs. Tried in a test virtualbox 
> setup. This worked in reverse! In /virtualbox/, 151a7 /successfully/ 
> upgraded to 151a9. Though in vbox the upgrade went successfully, I 
> have tried if reinstalling gvfs is safe (before trying it at 
> production server). Booted into single user mode, log in as root, and did
> # pkg uninstall gvfs
> # pkg install gvfs
> And rebooted. What do you think? GNOME degraded. In the same way as in 
> the production server. Reinstalling gvfs caused exactly the same 
> symptoms which it intended to cure.
>
> If someone knows how to upgrade 151a7 to 151a9, please post step-by 
> step instructions.
>
> Regards,
> Dmitry.