While performing a live upgrade from Nevada build 54 to Nevada build 57, I bumped into the following error:
$ lucreate -n Nevada_B57 -m /:/dev/dsk/c1d0s0:ufs -m
/var:/dev/dsk/c1d0s3:ufs -m -:/dev/dsk/c1d0s1:swap**
Discovering physical storage devices Discovering logical storage devices Cross referencing storage devices with boot environment configurations Determining types of file systems supported Validating file system requests Preparing logical storage devices Preparing physical storage devices Configuring physical storage devices Configuring logical storage devices Analyzing system configuration. Comparing source boot environment file systems with the file system(s) you specified for the new boot environment. Determining which file systems should be in the new boot environment. Updating boot environment description database on all BEs. Searching /dev for possible boot environment filesystem devices
Template entry /var:/dev/dsk/c1d0s3:ufs skipped.
luconfig: ERROR: Template filesystem definition failed for /var, all devices are not applicable.. ERROR: Configuration of boot environment failed.
The error message provided little information on what the actual problem was, and when I removed “-m /var:/dev/dsk/c1d0s3:ufs” from the lucreate command line, everything worked as expected. Being extremely baffled by this problem, I started reading through the opensolaris.org installation forum, and eventually came across a post from Nils Nieuwejaar. Nils mentioned that he had debugged an issue where the partition flags weren’t set to “wm”, and this had caused his live upgrade to fail. I used Nils feedback, and went into format to change the partitiong flags for the new “/var” file system to “wm”. Once I saved my changes and ran lucreate again, everything worked as expected:
$ lucreate -n Nevada_B57 -m /:/dev/dsk/c1d0s0:ufs -m
/var:/dev/dsk/c1d0s3:ufs -m -:/dev/dsk/c1d0s1:swap**
Discovering physical storage devices Discovering logical storage devices Cross referencing storage devices with boot environment configurations Determining types of file systems supported Validating file system requests Preparing logical storage devices Preparing physical storage devices Configuring physical storage devices Configuring logical storage devices Analyzing system configuration. Comparing source boot environment file systems with the file system(s) you specified for the new boot environment. Determining which file systems should be in the new boot environment. Updating boot environment description database on all BEs. Searching /dev for possible boot environment filesystem devices
Updating system configuration files. The device is not a root device for any boot environment; cannot get BE ID. Creating configuration for boot environment . Source boot environment is . Creating boot environment . Checking for GRUB menu on boot environment . The boot environment does not contain the GRUB menu. Creating file systems on boot environment . Creating file system for </> in zone on . Creating file system for in zone on . Mounting file systems for boot environment . Calculating required sizes of file systems for boot environment . Populating file systems on boot environment . Checking selection integrity. Integrity check OK. Populating contents of mount point </>. Populating contents of mount point . < ….. >
Now to convince the live upgrade developers to clean up their error messages. :)