If anyone has any solid documents on updating Solaris 11.0 to 11.1 please share. I have been spinning my wheels for day now. I got past running the pre-update step. Rebooted the system and trying to continue with update to 11.1 using IPS repo and keeps failing with message that it can't reach running zone. Very frustrated and Oracle documents are sending me in circles. Anyone have any experience with local IPS repo's? My system can't connect to internet so I can't use Solaris release url... I was able to create 11.0 repo and install a zone from that repo and use that repo also for the pre-upgrade step along with pre-update iso. after that I am stuck... can't get system to update to 11.1!!!!!
Procedure is dependent on couple of things :
1. Your operating system exact version (SRU).
2. If you are running zones or not, additional steps must be taken depending,again, on the SRU level.
3. A working repository for the version you wish to upgrade.
So if you want to upgrade from 11 to 11.1.x.x, you will need (at least) IPS full 11.1 + same repository patched to 11.1.x.x where x.x is only the latest IPS downloaded and applied to existing 11.1 IPS repo.
Also, 11.1 is old, you should go higher if you can depending on the needs and setup.
Can you post output of commands :
Perhaps those can provide additional information to help you.
Yes the plan is to go to 11.2 - I got the 11.1 update to work on both global and non global 11.0 system. The thing is I did so much stuff I'm still not clear on the procedure - mainly on how to get the repository to be seen by the zone - when I got the update to finally work the zone had a pkg publisher of an http localhost:1008/sorlairs/version (I assume) it was a long string of numbers... well I did get it to work but not sure how I did it... :-) Next step is to update to 11.2 tomorrow. I will post output of what you requested if I have trouble with that. I did have to download a pre-update iso and combine it with 11.0 repo to do the first part of update - then I had to run pkg install pkg/package after that with 11.1 repo configured and that's when it wouldn't connect to the zone... kept failing with https connection errors... I went back and looked at 11.1 docs and I configured a sharenfs for the repo and also configured application/pkg/server. After I did all that I got pkg install package/pkg to run. Here is the application/pkg/server steps I followed:
This service was in maintenance when I checjed it after configuration.. i rebooted system and it came back disabled.. I enabled it and it went online - after that I was able to install package/pkg and update both global and non global zone.
Check your work:
Use pkg.depotd to serve the repository to clients. By default, pkg.depotd listens for connections on port 80. You can change the port by resetting the pkg/port property.
Start the Repository Service
Restart the pkg.depotd repository service.
Here are the NFS share steps I followed:
Make sure sharenfs is on:
Here is the error I was getting before I performed the above...
I can't put URLs in my message the the error is unable to connect to localhost 1008 etc...
Any Idea what I did to get it to work?
---------- Post updated at 12:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:55 AM ----------
PS - after all this and getting the systems to 11.1 I was able to install a new 11.1 zone using the 11-1repo - so it looks like the repo is working OK now - my worries are when I unset that repo and configure the 11.2 repo I will have the same issues. I'd like to know what I'm doing with this stuff but docs online are barbaric... haha
By the way thanks a lot for taking an interest and trying to help me out...
Here is the info you asked for..
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if it's a standard zone it shares certain file systems with root and thus you don't need to update the zone separately it will automatically get updated when you update the Global zone.
thanks - yes it did update the zone automatically but only after I had trouble configuring the global zone IPS repo. I started out with a fresh 11.0 install and was able to create a zone with 11.0 repo... that zone took a pkg publisher of localhost as the global zone was using file:///export/repo11-0 which is where I copied the download. This is all being done on test system and I'm creating zones as I update - the system I will be working on is 11.0 and has zones on it with no pkg publisher - well they have the default which using oracle web site - there is no internet connection for these systems so I'm having to do it with local IPS repos. This forum won't let me put links in it until I have 5 posts but the pkg publisher on both my zones now are h t t p localhost 1008 solaris. My concern is when I attempt this on production system the update to the zones will not connect to the repo configured on the global zone. The repo on my zones was I guess automatically created when I built them from the corresponding repos... I built one zone at 11.0 it updated to 11.1 when I updated the global zone.. i created another zone with 11.1 repo. Right now I believe both my zones see the 11.1 repo via http connection but not sure what will happen when I change the repo to 11.2 - more so I'm concerned that none of this will work on production system as I belive the 11.0 zones on it where created with .flar file not a IPS repo... any guidance is appreciated.. thanks a lot - Steve
---------- Post updated at 06:51 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:36 PM ----------
PS - I belive with Solaris 11 and above the zones are called Kernel zones and take the properties of global zone properties..
Here is global zone pkg publisher..
root@suntest:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION
solaris origin online F file:///export/11-1repo/
root@suntest:~#
Here are both zones publishers
root@testzone:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION
solaris (syspub) origin online F <system-repository>
root@testzone:~#
The original pkg publisher on teszone after it was created with 11.0repo and pre-update repo was
root@testzone:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI
solaris (syspub) origin online localhost:1008/solaris/33282b6a4e23725e2f8bed226e001415c59822cd/
solaris (syspub) origin online localhost:1008/solaris/85de7030275d53794b9da3089aafe72436621f1f/
root@testzone:~#
then it changed to
root@testzone:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI
solaris (syspub) origin online localhost:1008/solaris/64d778c23faf291c05547397679007c683a7d502/
root@testzone:~#
excuse the 2 above results as I can't post URL's yet until I have 5 posts... but there was an h t t p in front of localhost...
and now it's
root@testzone11-1:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION
solaris (syspub) origin online F <system-repository>
root@testzone11-1:~#
I guess after the update to 11.1 it no longer points to http connection
Now you see why it's so confusing... I made none of these changes to the zones - it was all done either during initial build or while updating global zone...
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