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Larry Lindstrom

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Jun 21, 2009, 4:38:58 PM6/21/09

Hi Folks:

I'm still just dabbling with Open Solaris, hoping to get deeper
into it soon.

Today a popup informed me that I have some updates waiting for me.
I clicked ok and was presented with a long list of updates and a
choice of "Cancel" or "Update All". "Click Update All to create a new
boot environment and install all packages into it".

So I selected "Update All".

Another window popped up reporting a problem, and instructing me to
run:

pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg

So I cut and pasted that command into another terminal window,
where the install appeared to run without problems.

Then I selected "Update All" again.

Another window popped up immediately, with "Update All" in it's
caption.

(-) Evaluate - Failed
Download
Install
Index
-----------------------
Details

Evaluate

Fetching catalog: 'opensolaris.org' ...

Creating Plan ...

ERROR
Update All unexpected error in evaluation:

Cancel

What do you suggest?

I have no particular reason to use Open Solaris over Solaris. Is
Open Solaris the right choice for me?

Thanks
Larry

Chris Ridd

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Jun 22, 2009, 2:48:58 AM6/22/09

On 2009-06-21 21:38:58 +0100, Larry Lindstrom <larryl...@hotmail.com> said:

> ERROR
> Update All unexpected error in evaluation:
>
>
> Cancel
>
> What do you suggest?

Ignore the update manager GUI. All it is doing reduces to this:

pfexec pkg image-update

There are some extra arguments you can add, but they're entirely
optional so I'd ignore them for now. They're described in the man page.

> I have no particular reason to use Open Solaris over Solaris. Is
> Open Solaris the right choice for me?

I'd stick with OpenSolaris, but you need to expect some brokenness
sometimes. With boot environments (like image-update is creating for
you) it is very easy to reboot into a known working OS update if you
get problems.
--
Chris

Dick Hoogendijk

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Jun 23, 2009, 8:24:32 AM6/23/09

quoting Larry Lindstrom (Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:38:58 -0700 (PDT)):
> So I cut and pasted that command into another terminal window,
> where the install appeared to run without problems.
>
> Then I selected "Update All" again.

You updated the pkg utility but probably the GUI had not picked that up
(yet). Maybe you should have closed/opened it first before clicking
"update all"

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Larry Lindstrom

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Jun 26, 2009, 12:57:05 AM6/26/09

Thanks Chris and Dick:

I haven't done much with OpenSolaris, so I'm just going to install
the new 2009.06 and go from there.

Thanks
Larry

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