[OpenIndiana-discuss] debugging service startup errors after recent pkg update

[John D Groenveld]

In message <DS0PR08MB91402C336B23AA3985EBB172ED71A at DS0PR08MB9140.namprd08.prod.
outlook.com>, "Mooney, Tim via openindiana-discuss" writes:
>
>    zpool import -f rpool -R /mnt/rpool/
>
>That did succeed and I could see the non-OS datasets for /usr/local , the home
> dir filesystem and one other, but what I didn't see was /, /usr, or /var.

If you wish to inspect the BEs, you should mount them:
<URL:https://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/?h=beadm#beadm-command-reference> 

>One other thing stuck out about the boot environments.  I'm not great about cl
>eaning up old boot environments so I have a bunch of them.  Most of them are i
>n the 50-250 MB range in size.  The boot environment that got created as part 
>of the 'pkg update' that preceded this mess says its 575 GB (not MB, GB).  Tha
>t seems suspicious.

Once your scrub completes, check if the pool is full.
If it is, maybe activate an earlier BE, boot it milestone=none and
then destroy the errant, latest BE.

John
groenveld at acm.org