On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:18 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> >> How are you booting the
> >> system? (rEFIt?)
> >
> > No, I just installed OpenSolaris.
> 
> Ah, only OS then?

Yes.

> 
> ...
> >> Only bug I see possibly related is 6929493 (in the sense that changes
> >> for the bug may have triggered this issue possibly).
> >
> > A few days ago I noticed that the new boot environment is actually there
> > and can be booted despite the ZFS error.  I installed b138 today and it
> > works, but I get this error on updating.
> 
> So, there are some ZFS bugs that seem related, although some of them are 
> supposedly already fixed and I'm not certain that others relate:
> 
>    http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6740164
>    http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6860320
> 
> Did you recently attach or import any zpools?

I don't think so.  The only thing I did was:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2009-November/008131.html

But I did that around 132 or 133 and at least I did one image-update
after that, which worked.

> 
> Also, when you originally installed the OS, did you completely erase the 
> drive before installing?

I can't remember, but I guess no.

> 
> I've run into problems in the past where fixes or changes have caused 
> the OS to check partition headers and other areas for signatures that 
> were leftover by other disk utilities and gave me grief.
> 
> So, to be clear, sometime after you updated to b134, you could no longer 
> update to any other builds because it gave you a message like this?
> 
>    be_get_uuid: failed to get uuid property from BE root dataset user
> ...
>    set_bootfs: failed to set bootfs property for pool rpool: property 
> 'bootfs' not supported on EFI labeled devices
>    be_activate: failed to set bootfs pool property for 
> rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-135

Exactly.

-- Christian

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