Solaris 10 Live Upgrade with Non-global Zones

PHMLN

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Jul 21, 2012, 1:20:11 PM7/21/12

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Hi

I am trying to perform a Live Upgrade on my 2 Servers, both of them have NGZ installed and those NGZ are on an diifferent Zpool not on the Rpool and also are on an external disk.

I have installed all the latest patches required for LU to work properly but when i perform an <lucreate> i start having problems... (new_s10BE is the new BE i'm creating)

On my 1st Server:
I have a Global zone and 1 NGZ named mddtri.. This is the error i am getting:-

*ERROR: unable to mount zone <mddtri> in </.alt.tmp.b-VBb.mnt>.*
*zoneadm: zone 'mddtri': zone root /zoneroots/mddtri/root already in use by zone mddtri*
*zoneadm: zone 'mddtri': call to zoneadm failed*
*ERROR: unable to mount non-global zones of ABE: cannot make bootable*
*ERROR: cannot unmount </.alt.tmp.b-VBb.mnt/var/run>*

*ERROR: unable to make boot environment <new_s10BE> bootable*

On my 2nd Server:
I have a Global zone and 10 NGZ. This is the error i am getting:-

*WARNING: Directory </zoneroots/zone1> zone <global> lies on a filesystem shared netween BEs, remapping path to </zoneroots/zone1/zone1-new_s10BE>*
*WARNING: Device <zone1> is shared between BEs, remmapping to <zone1-new_s10BE>*
*.*
*.*
*.This happens for all the NGZ running.*
*.*
*.*
*Duplicating ZFS datasets from PBE to ABE.*
*ERROR: The dataset <zone1-new_s10BE> is on top of ZFS pool. Unable to clone. Please migrate the zone to dedicated dataset.*
*ERROR: Unable to create a duplicate of <zone1> dataset in PBE. <zone1-new_s10BE> dataset in ABE already exists.*
*Reverting state of zones in PBE <old_s10BE>*
*ERROR: Unable to copy file system from boot environment <old_s10BE> to BE <new_s10BE>*
*ERROR: Unable to populate file systems from boot environment <new_s10BE>*

cindy.sw...@gmail.com

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Jul 22, 2012, 12:30:54 PM7/22/12

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On Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:20:11 AM UTC-6, PHMLN wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to perform a Live Upgrade on my 2 Servers, both of them have NGZ installed and those NGZ are on an diifferent Zpool not on the Rpool and also are on an external disk.
>

> I have installed all the latest patches required for LU to work properly but when i perform an <lucreate> i start having problems... (new_s10BE is the new BE i'm creating)

>
> On my 1st Server:
> I have a Global zone and 1 NGZ named mddtri.. This is the error i am getting:-
>

> *ERROR: unable to mount zone <mddtri> in </.alt.tmp.b-VBb.mnt>.*
> *zoneadm: zone 'mddtri': zone root /zoneroots/mddtri/root already in use by zone mddtri*
> *zoneadm: zone 'mddtri': call to zoneadm failed*

> *ERROR: unable to mount non-global zones of ABE: cannot make bootable*

> *ERROR: cannot unmount </.alt.tmp.b-VBb.mnt/var/run>*
>
> *ERROR: unable to make boot environment <new_s10BE> bootable*

>
> On my 2nd Server:
> I have a Global zone and 10 NGZ. This is the error i am getting:-
>

> *WARNING: Directory </zoneroots/zone1> zone <global> lies on a filesystem shared netween BEs, remapping path to </zoneroots/zone1/zone1-new_s10BE>*
> *WARNING: Device <zone1> is shared between BEs, remmapping to <zone1-new_s10BE>*

> *.*
> *.*
> *.This happens for all the NGZ running.*
> *.*
> *.*
> *Duplicating ZFS datasets from PBE to ABE.*

> *ERROR: The dataset <zone1-new_s10BE> is on top of ZFS pool. Unable to clone. Please migrate the zone to dedicated dataset.*
> *ERROR: Unable to create a duplicate of <zone1> dataset in PBE. <zone1-new_s10BE> dataset in ABE already exists.*
> *Reverting state of zones in PBE <old_s10BE>*
> *ERROR: Unable to copy file system from boot environment <old_s10BE> to BE <new_s10BE>*
> *ERROR: Unable to populate file systems from boot environment <new_s10BE>*

Someone on this list had problems with zones and LU and I think it turned out to be a problem
with his apache pkg so you might look up that thread and review the outcome. I can't remember
if the NGZ + LU errors are the same but please check.

In general, you should confirm that your zones configuration is supported prior to use LU and you can
review that info here:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/819-5461/ggpdm.html#gihfj

Please identify your Solaris 10 release and I'll look up these errors when I get to the office tomorrow.

Thanks,

Cindy