/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket: Musings from the bitbucket

When LU'ing a buildbox from snv_110 to snv_115, I saw that 71 packages failed to add correctly to the new BE. The failure on pkgadd came with a message like this:

Doing pkgadd of SUNWgtk2 to /

28453 blocks

/a/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWgtk2/install/postinstall: /a/usr/share/desktop-cache/restart_fmri:

not found

pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully



Installation of  failed.

pkgadd return code = 1

The workaround for this was to pkgadd the SUNWdesktop-cache package to my new BE's root (/.alt.snv_115 in my case), and then run


yes |pkgadd -R /.alt.snv_115 -d /net/installserver/export/nv/x/115/Solaris_11/Product `cat var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_failed_pkgadds`