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Resolving upgrade issues for SXDE 5/07

The upgrade issues with SXDE 5/07 have been resolved. I jotted down some points during this process and if you are facing a similar problem , hope this blog or the documents in the SXDE 5/07 document collection help.

1.The problem is directly related to SXDE 2/07 install, specifically the install of Chinese and Japanese localization/language support features. These features were installed even though they were not explicitly selected.

2.During an upgrade of SXDE, the user cannot deselect previously installed language selections.Hence , when I was upgrading , the installer had to install the Chinese and Japanese features even though I had not explicitly selected them, resulting in the installer complaining of lack of disk space on / .

This issue is documented in the SXDE Release Notes. 

If you want to see how much upgrade space you have on your system and how much is required, exit the installer and take a look at the /tmp/upgrade_space_required file.  This is what I had on my system:

Mount Point       Slice                 Current Size      Min suggested

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

/                     /dev/dsk/c0d0s0     8161020         8256360


/export/home  /dev/dsk/c0d0s7     33142095            866656

The error "Disk space reallocation required" during an upgrade can be resolved by specifying "backup_media". See this document on using backup media. Also of use might be the chapter "Solaris Installation and Upgrade" "System Requirements,Guidelines and Upgrade(Planning)" in the Solaris 10 11/06 Release and Installation Collection.

# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 5211 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c0d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c0d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M).
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7 is currently mounted on /export/home. Please see umount(1M).

In my case, I could not use c0d0 . See the output of format above.Since there are no other disks , I had to use either tape drive or back up on a remote filesystem.

The other option was to uninstall Sun Studio11 or remove all the packages related to the Chinese and Japanese language features.

I uninstalled Sun Studio 11 after which the upgrade proceeded smoothly and I now have SXDE 5/07 on mylaptop with all my previous data intact.

The instructions to uninstall Sun Studio 11 is provided in the SXDE Developer Tools README. Note that the Sun Studio uninstaller does not work with JDK 1.6 and you need to have JDK 1.5 in your path(or set your JDK_PATH environment variable to JDK 1.5).

# PATH=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/bin:$PATH
# export PATH
# cd /var/sadm/prod/com.sun.studio_11/
# ./uninstall_icon.sh
# ./batch_uninstall_all
# exit

This should do a clean uninstall of SS 11. To double check, reboot and check the /var/sadm/pkg directory If there are no SPRO* packages, then the uinstall is successful.

Posted at 04:05PM Jun 21, 2007 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun  |  Comments[1]