Thursday 3 January 2013

Solaris - Patching Zones with NFS mount points

Further to previous posts (and test I've done) I came across issues where I've patched a couple of servers running Sparse Zones which have NFS mount points. The issues are:

1. Mount points disappear and have to be recreated upon reboot. Symptoms: no mount points and directories disappeared but the entries in vfstab are still there.

2. The worst of the two is where upon reboot (post BE activation) the Zones failed to start and when manually started the 3 errors appeared:
libpool(3LIB) error: System error
dedicated-cpu setting cannot be instantiated
call to zoneadmd failed

After logging a call on MOS they support engineer has linked the problem to a bug:
ID# 15774198 lucreate(1M)and lumake(1M)cannot copy NFS mountpoint non-global zone.

As of today (3rd January2013) I have had no further updates.....

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