Friday July 25, 2008
OpenSolaris 2008.05 - Performing a package update/upgrade
Howdy Folks, I thought I would share this tid-bit of information that saved me lots of time (and pain).
I tried installing Open Solaris 2008.05 on to my MAC Laptop using VirtualBox 1.6.2. All went very well, the install was easy, clicked to install the Live CD and followed the step-by-step wizard to install the product.
I then thought, OK, what other packages are available, what products / patches are there that I can install... So I did a "Install All", I was logging in as chrisf/password.
All went ok, it started to download 3GB's of data and after a few long hours -- like watching the grass grow -- it was ready to install. It started ticking away got to about 5% of the way through the progress then seemed to hang. No errors in any log, no errors in the console, I was stuck. Luckily I made a back-up/snapsot using virtual box...
I then rolled back to the good working snapshot... Like all good ol' techies I tried again, but was going to work out what the problem might be.
Instead of using the "Menu" System->Administration and selecting Package Manager, I decided to try a few things from command line.
gksu /usr/bin/packagemanager
I then tried the same thing... thinking something may be different when running as root.
I watched the grass grow -- and had a similar experience the install seemed to hang (AGAIN after the 3gig download).
HOWEVER in the terminal window was an error, ah-huh... perhaps a package install failed...
The error occured with SUNWslim-utils a user was not found on the system... ah huh...
OK, so I then reverted to the snapshot again, thought third time is a charm and tried again, again from command line... I selected ALL but this particular package and after the 3 gig download, I was actually able to get all of the packages installed :-)
Rule of Thump, use the command line version :-)
Posted at 05:10PM Jul 25, 2008 by Chris Fleischmann in GlassFish | Comments[0]
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