[OmniOS-discuss] ami instance upgrade problems

[PÁSZTOR György]

Hi,

I'm learning amazon, so I thought it would be nice, if I'd play with an
omnios inside my free tier experiments instead of linux.
I installed omnios from the "official" source: ami-0169c5108d1bdfd57
(Yes, I choose Ohio instead of N. Virginia to play at)

One small sidenote: ipv6 is not enabled in the official image, however I
configured so for the instance. After install I manually run this:
ipadm create-addr -T addrconf xnf0/v6
Well, it solved everything. It seems way more simpleer then toying with
linux.

But... I can not update my instance.
pkg update created the omnios-1 be, but I can not activate it.
root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# beadm list
BE       Active Mountpoint     Space Policy Created
omnios   NR     /              801M  static 2018-05-04 18:52
omnios-1 -      /tmp/tmpTvggQP 158M  static 2018-07-20 00:15
root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# beadm activate -v omnios-1
be_do_installboot: device c4t0d0
be_do_installboot: install failed for device c4t0d0.
  Command: "/usr/sbin/installboot -m -f /tmp/tmpTvggQP/boot/pmbr /tmp/tmpTvggQP/boot/gptzfsboot /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0"
  Errors:
open: No such file or directory
Unable to open device /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0
be_run_cmd: command terminated with error status: 1
Unable to activate omnios-1.
Error installing boot files.
root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# ls -l /dev/rdsk/*t0d0s0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          34 Jul 18 22:07 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 -> ../../devices/xpvd/xdf at 51712:a,raw
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Jul 20 00:21 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0 -> c1t0d0s0
root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# /usr/sbin/installboot -m -f /tmp/tmpTvggQP/boot/pmbr /tmp/tmpTvggQP/boot/gptzfsboot /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 
bootblock version installed on /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 is more recent or identical
Use -F to override or install without the -u option

root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# zpool status -v
  pool: syspool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        syspool     ONLINE       0     0     0
          c4t0d0    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# echo | format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c1t0d0 <Xen-Virtual disk-1.0-8.00GB>
          /xpvd/xdf at 51712
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number): 


Well, I'm stucked at this point. I don't know how could I fix these.
I assume, the problem is, somewhere around the c4 vs c1 numbering, so it
try to open the wrong device.

Note.: So let's just assume, it should work, without running the installboot
command.

root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# cd /usr/sbin
root at ip-172-31-28-110:/usr/sbin# mv installboot installboot.save
root at ip-172-31-28-110:/usr/sbin# ln -s ../bin/true installboot
root at ip-172-31-28-110:/usr/sbin# beadm activate -v omnios-1
be_do_installboot: device c4t0d0
  Command: "/usr/sbin/installboot -m -f /tmp/tmpTvggQP/boot/pmbr /tmp/tmpTvggQP/boot/gptzfsboot /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0"
Activated successfully
root at ip-172-31-28-110:/usr/sbin# reboot
OmniOS 5.11     omnios-r151026-b6848f4455       June 2018
root at ip-172-31-28-110:~# beadm list
BE       Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created
omnios   -      -          3.66M static 2018-05-04 18:52
omnios-1 NR     /          1.01G static 2018-07-20 00:15

Will. It's a very dirty hack. Is there a nicer way to fix this c4 vs c1
thing?
Btw.: it seems installboot would give back false, even if it could open the
device, because it already has the same version of boot block. Shouldn't
that circumstance checked on behalf of beadm?

Cheers,
gyu