<font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Lisa,<br clear="all"></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">You might already know this, but never hurts to say it. While creating a BE, you can always re-size</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"> your alt-be partition size.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">This way,you will have more space than the actual OS.<br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">Usually, when an alt-be takes up more space than the current-be, it means that couple of mounted FS has been clubbed into it. At this point, you will need to make explicit ignore to most non-os FS in your lucreate statement.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">The above usually happens when you have multiple zones or shared storage/vcs and vfstab is not clean.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">Good luck. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">-GGR</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333ff" face="verdana, sans-serif">--</font></div><div><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 09:30, Becktold, Lisa M. (LARC-B7)[Chugach Federal Solutions, Inc.] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisa.m.becktold@nasa.gov">lisa.m.becktold@nasa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi, Glenn:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for your e-mail. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You hit upon the problem – the inactive BE / was at 100% disk utilization. This was due to java core files – which was why I was applying patches in the first place, to fix java and eliminate the core files.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Anyway, once I removed some of the java core files from /var/core and freed up space on the inactive boot environment, pca worked just fine and I was able to patch the inactive boot environment.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Lisa<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Glen Gunselman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:30 PM</span></p><div class="im"><br><b>To:</b> PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br></div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pca] pca returns patchadd error - inactive BE<u></u><u></u><p></p>
</div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Did you install that patch (the </span>Install and Patch Utilities Patch (119254)) on the “active” BE?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think an exit code of 5 is IO error:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">grep EIO /usr/include/sys/errno.h<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#define EIO 5 /* I/O error */<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">How much free space on the inactive BE?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can you create/delete dir and files on the mounted inactive BE?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Are you using ZFS?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
I hope some of this helps, I’m mostly just thinking though the keyboard ...<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Glen Gunselman<br>
Systems Software Specialist<br>TCS<br>Emporia State University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lisa M. (LARC-B7)[Chugach Federal Solutions Inc.] Becktold<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 30, 2011 2:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> Glen Gunselman; <a href="mailto:pca@lists.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">pca@lists.univie.ac.at</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [pca] pca returns patchadd error - inactive BE<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">How do I use pca to patch inactive boot environment?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Whenever I try to us pca.perl to apply patches to an inactive boot environment, I see pkgadd and patchadd and “exit code 5” error messages for each patch:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Patch 119254-81 failed to install due to a failure produced by <b>pkgadd.</b><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">See /.alt.Sol10_u6/var/sadm/patch/119254-81/log for details<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Patchadd </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">is terminating.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Failed (exit code 5)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">I use “lumount <i>inactive_BE</i>” to mount the inactive boot environment before attempting to patch:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b># lumount Sol10_u6<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve tried two different versions of the pca.perl command, with different options. However, the result is the same – the pkgadd error appears.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b># ./pca.perl --root=/.alt.Sol10_u6 -y -i -P /usr/local/patches missingrs<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b># ./pca.perl --root=/.alt.Sol10_u6 –install<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">How do I use pca to patch inactive boot environment?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Note: The two pca.perl commands shown above work fine when I patch the active boot environment. In other words, I leave out the “—root=/.alt.Sol10_u6” option.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Lisa<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Lisa Becktold<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">System Administrator<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chugach Federal Solutions, Inc.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">NASA Center for AeroSpace Information Contract<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Phone: <a href="tel:443%20995%205805" value="+14439955805" target="_blank">443 995 5805</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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