[Sunhelp] Re: Problem adding VRTSvxvm

[Jon Ingason]

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The 220R has one intenal disk and one external.
This is first time installation of VRTSvxvm or Veritas volume manager.
Thert is no /kernel/drv/ap and /tmp is mounted to swap as tmpfs.
The problem occur in the postinstall script for packet VRTSvxvm,
when it try to execute following instruction:

add_drv -m '* 0640 root sys' /kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxdmp

This fails and the rest of postinstallation is skiped.

Jon Ingason

Derrick Daugherty wrote:
> 
> What is your 220 attached to and how is it physically configured?  Have
> you attempted an install of vxvm before but interrupted it or the like?
> 
> modinfo |grep vx
> 
> is dmp already listed?  if so you can  `modunload` it, but I'd remove
> the whole package cleanly if it's not in use yet, then reinstall.
> 
> It's also possible that when you installed rm6, if you did, and
> depending on your configuration, it may have touched the file
> /kernel/drv/ap  which the vxdmp install now belives that alternate
> pathing is installed.
> 
> w/o knowing what your configuration and your end goal is it's hard to
> recommend.
> 
> Another possible issue, is your /tmp a seperate mount point from / ?
> 
> -Derrick
> 
> It's rumored that around Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:20:17PM +0100
> Jon Ingason <Jon.Ingason at GlobalOne.net> wrote:
> > Hi, I have Sun Ultra Enterprise 220R whith Solaris 7 installed
> > and patched with recommended patches fr Solaris 7 from
> > SunSolve version 4.0.15.
> >
> > When I try to add the packet VRTSvxvm I get following:
> >
> > ## Executing postinstall script.
> >
> > Copy //kernel/drv/vxio.SunOS_5.7 to //kernel/drv/vxio...
> > Copy //kernel/drv/vxspec.SunOS_5.7 to //kernel/drv/vxspec...
> >
> > Copy //kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxio.SunOS_5.7 to //kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxio...
> > Copy //kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxspec.SunOS_5.7 to
> > //kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxspec...
> > Copy //sbin/vxconfigd.SunOS_5.7 to //sbin/vxconfigd...
> > Copy //kernel/drv/vxdmp.SunOS_5.7 to //kernel/drv/vxdmp...
> > Copy //kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxdmp.SunOS_5.7 to
> > //kernel/drv/sparcv9/vxdmp...
> >
> > Adding vxdmp driver for SunOS version 5.7...
> > Warning: Unable to check for driver configuration conflicts.
> > Error: Could not install driver (vxdmp).
> > Device managed by another driver.
> >
> >         Error adding vxdmp driver. Please fix the problem and re-run
> > pkgadd.
> > pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
> >
> > Installation of <VRTSvxvm> failed.
> >
> > I understand that "add_drv" is trying to install the vxdmp driver,
> > but do not know how to solve this.
> >
> > Jon Ingason
> > Unix System Administrator
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