[OmniOS-discuss] problem with boot-archive after upgrade

[Jeff Stockett]

> > I upgraded a system from 012 to 018 just now and everything went totally
> smoothly – system rebooted fine.  However, the boot environment names
> weren’t what I wanted and since beadm can’t rename the active one, I create
> a new one, activated it, and rebooted again.  On reboot this second (and
> subsequent times), I’m getting this in /var/src/log/system-boot-
> archive:default.log:
> >
> > [ Mar 20 14:25:01 Executing start method
> > ("/lib/svc/method/boot-archive"). ] cannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid:
> > No such file or directory cannot find: /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: No
> > such file or directory cannot find: /etc/devices/retire_store: No such
> > file or directory [ Mar 20 14:25:50 Method "start" exited with status
> > 0. ] [ May 18 05:20:09 Enabled. ] [ May 18 05:20:14 Executing start
> > method ("/lib/svc/method/boot-archive"). ] [ May 18 05:21:15 Method or
> > service exit timed out.  Killing contract 16. ] [ May 18 05:21:15
> > Method "start" failed due to signal KILL. ]
> >
> > The system eventually comes up to a single user mode login, and if I login
> as root, and enter “svcadm clear system/boot-archive” and/or maybe just
> wait a while longer, then logout the system eventually comes up and works
> fine in multi-user mode, but I was wondering if there is an easy way to fix
> whatever I’ve done to shoot myself in the foot here?  I tried “bootadm
> update-archive” but that doesn’t appear to fix it.
> 
> When you manually ran 'bootadm update-archive' did it give you any output
> such as "updating..." , or did it silently exit?
> 
> If the latter, do something like 'touch /etc/system' first, then run it, as
> bootadm will regenerate the boot archive only if it detects any changes in the
> files its concerned with. And yes, I've seen this same problem you speak of
> on rare occasion, with a rebuild of the boot archive being the cure.

Thanks for your reply - here is what I get when I try your suggestion which looks promising - but when I reboot, still same problem.

root at zfs01:/root# touch /etc/system; bootadm update-archive -v
cannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid: No such file or directory
cannot find: /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: No such file or directory
    changed /etc/system
mkisofs not found, creating UFS archive
updating /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
updating /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
root at zfs01:/root#

If you or anyone else has any other ideas, I'm all ears, otherwise I'll probably just live with it since it doesn't seem to cause problems other than slowing the initial boot.