Upgrade from Solaris 8 (5.8) to 5.10 fails
Hi everyone...
Here is a curly one for the Sun gurus.
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I attempted to perform the upgrade from Sol 8 (Dec/02) to Sol 10 (from the CD/DVD Jan/06) and got all the way past the "Test Upgrade Profile". The initialize started after I clicked onto the gui "Install Now" button. However, it fails after an hour or so - each an every time.
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We have the 4.2.1 DiskSuite defined on a 3310 disk array and well as the 2 system disks - which are striped and mirrored. I can not do a Live Upgrade as I don't have a spare disk, so Sun Support in India suggested I do the upgrade in place...but is crashs attempting to copy files from the CD to the Server, as well as , so other strange error messages?
The first attempt was to leave vfstab untouched, the 2nd was to comment out the disk array (D30, D31, & D32) devices. But both fail. The install logs will be uploaded.
vfstab:
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#devicedevicemountFSfsckmountmount
#to mountto fsckpointtypepassat bootoptions
#
#/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usrufs1yes-
fd-/dev/fdfd-no-
/proc-/procproc-no-
/dev/md/dsk/d1--swap-no-
/dev/md/dsk/d0/dev/md/rdsk/d0/ufs1nologging
/dev/md/dsk/d3/dev/md/rdsk/d3/varufs1nologging
/dev/md/dsk/d4/dev/md/rdsk/d4/archiveufs2yeslogging
/dev/md/dsk/d7/dev/md/rdsk/d7/export/homeufs2yeslogging
/dev/md/dsk/d6/dev/md/rdsk/d6/usr/openvufs2yeslogging
/dev/md/dsk/d30/dev/md/rdsk/d30/softwareufs2yeslogging
/dev/md/dsk/d31/dev/md/rdsk/d31/databasesufs2yeslogging
/dev/md/dsk/d32/dev/md/rdsk/d32/spareufs2yeslogging
swap-/tmptmpfs-yes-
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The install_log show weird errors that stop the upgrade.
See below
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Error opening file /a/var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER.
getInstalledPkgs: Unable to access /a/var/sadm/pkg
copyOldClustertoc: could not copy /a/var/sadm/system/admin/.clustertoc to /tmp/clustertocs/.old.clustertoc
Error:
Error: ERROR: The specified root and/or boot was not found or was not upgradeable
Pfinstall failed. Exit stat= <a href="mailto:java.lang.UNIXProcess@20ca8b" target="_blank">java.lang.UNIXProcess@20ca8b</a> 2
word must be specified if an upgrade with disk space reallocation is required
Processing profile
Checking c2t0d0s0 for an upgradeable Solaris image
Unable to start Solaris Volume Manager for unknown, c2t0d0s0 is not upgradeable
ERROR: The specified root and/or boot was not found or was not upgradeable
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Now initially I had to add a number of packages/patches via the note 72099 that was displayed at the very beginning of the Sol 10 upgrade. Also, do and check the necessary bits via document 16141-1.
But the upgrade just fails. I would like to keep the disk array and its data intact for the upgrade as it has Oracle 11i Apps databases and its a bit of work redefining the metastat and loading Oracle, and the other bits it needs, as well as Netbackup etc.
So, are there are any bright sparks out there that can help?
Please email me.
Cheers
Roger Sager
Oracle 11i Apps DBA
Sydney, Australia
