Actually, it works. Creating (and installing) the zone is ok, but the zone is somewhat non-functional, as installing any daemon package (examples: apache2, postfix, mysql-server) fails. The postinst of those packages call invoke-rc.d, where it freezes.

Jérôme Warnier wrote:

Actually, it works. Creating (and installing) the zone is ok, but the zone is somewhat non-functional, as installing any daemon package (examples: apache2, postfix, mysql-server) fails. The postinst of those packages call invoke-rc.d, where it freezes.

More info: there are SMF manifest installed, and svcs -av shows those services as offline. Disabling/enabling/restarting does not get them to work and logs in /var/svc/log/ do not show anything useful, nor does anything in /var/log.

Indeed, it all comes from the missing sysevent:

root@bcp-dev1:~# svcs -xv
svc:/network/npiv_config:default (?)
 State: offline since Sun Jun 20 23:45:46 2010
Reason: Dependency svc:/system/sysevent is absent.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-E2
Impact: 16 dependent services are not running:
        svc:/system/filesystem/local:default
        svc:/network/apache2:default
        svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
        svc:/system/intrd:default
        svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
        svc:/system/zones:default
        svc:/system/system-log:default
        svc:/network/inetd:default
        svc:/network/inetd-upgrade:default
        svc:/system/cron:default
        svc:/system/dbus:default
        svc:/system/hal:default
        svc:/network/ssh:default
        svc:/system/boot-archive-update:default
        svc:/network/shares/group:default
        svc:/system/sac:default

This seems actually to be a duplicate of #173.

In NCP 3.0 RC3, it is necessary to edit /usr/bin/createzone and replace the string 'elatte-unstable' with 'hardy-unstable'. You also need to change the @source_files array to the following (replacing elatte with nexenta):

/lib/svc/method/nexenta-sysidtool-system
/var/svc/manifest/system/nexenta-sysidtool.xml
/lib/svc/method/nexenta-sysidtool-net

You should then proceed with the modifications listed in #173. After creating a fresh zone in this manner, it was necessary to run 'zlogin -S zone' and 'pwconv', which then allowed the normal 'zlogin zone' to work.

Phillip Steinbachs wrote:

In NCP 3.0 RC3, it is necessary to edit /usr/bin/createzone and replace the string 'elatte-unstable' with 'hardy-unstable'. You also need to change the @source_files array to the following (replacing elatte with nexenta):

[...]

You should then proceed with the modifications listed in #173. After creating a fresh zone in this manner, it was necessary to run 'zlogin -S zone' and 'pwconv', which then allowed the normal 'zlogin zone' to work.

Shouldn't we submit a patch? It seems trivial to fix to me, though really serious as a bug.

Fix is described in detail here: http://www.thermetics.net/2010/08/19/fixing-nexenta-zones/

Bas van Oostveen wrote:

Fix is described in detail here: http://www.thermetics.net/2010/08/19/fixing-nexenta-zones/

This issue is under fix (sunwcsd and nexenta-zones packages). We'll upload a respin on NCP3 (3.0.1) soon.

~Anil

Anil Gulecha wrote:

Bas van Oostveen wrote:

Fix is described in detail here: http://www.thermetics.net/2010/08/19/fixing-nexenta-zones/

This issue is under fix (sunwcsd and nexenta-zones packages). We'll upload a respin on NCP3 (3.0.1) soon.

~Anil

Anil,

The nexenta-zones package appears ok, but the "[ zonename = global ] || sleep 3600 & exit 0" change does not work in the global zone. That is meant to go in each zone that gets created. If you install your sunwcsd package as is, the machine will not boot up properly (sysevent will get placed into maintenance mode).

You could change the line to the following and it should work ok for both global/non-global zones:

if [ `zonename` = global ]; then
           continue
else
           sleep 3600 & exit 0
fi

These fixes available as of 3.0.1. You still need to reconfigure sunwcsd once zone is installed. Zlogin and missing smf issues are fixed.

~Anil