Solaris

Hi All,

I have a doubt in solaris zoness where I have some of my local zones in "running state" when i try to install my patch on the global zone which will be automatically applied to all local zones , It says the local zones are not in ufs.

So i tried to halt all local zones , it says that your zones need to be in running state.

:-)

Kindly tell me ,is there any way of installing patches in this condition.

Thanks in advance for ur help.

Zones with a zone root in ZFS, I assume it is your case, aren't supported yet inder Solaris 10. They will be starting from the next update which should be released shortly (10/08).

A simple workaround if you have enough free space available would be to move temporarily your zones to ufs.

Hi Jialliagre,

Thanks for ur reply...can u help me out what are the steps in moving temporarily to ufs...

Regards,
jegaraman

We have our zones installed on ZFS slices and patching works (Solaris 10 5/08). Just boot to single user mode (boot -s), mount all filesystems (mountall -l; zfs mount -a) and then apply the patch(cluster). The zones seem to be started automatically for patching.

Hi ,

# /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a
# /usr/sbin/zoneadm -z a1 boot -s
zoneadm: /sbglbapptx1/a1zones/a1: No such file or directory
could not verify zonepath /sbglbapptx1/a1zones/a1 because of the above errors.
zoneadm: zone a1 failed to verify

If i give zfs for the file system and mount it also...not is it saying the above error.

Kindly help me in this regard.

Thanks and regards,
Jeganr

Since you're trying to patch the global zone, you should boot the global zone in single user mode. (Assuming you have a serial console with access to the OK prompt).

The scenario we use is something like this. We have a global zone (physical machine) with one or more zones. We boot the physical machine in single user mode. Then mount all filesystems and apply the patch in the global zone. The patch will be automatically applied to the zones as well:

Code:

global# init 0
[...]
ok> boot -s
[...]
global# mountall -l
global# zfs mount -a
global# patchadd xxxxxx-xx
global# init 6

Hi Vimes,

I have to do installation in Multi User mode and as well as in Single User mode also.

i have followed the steps what have been given by you ....

but still the same error.

Any ideas pl