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Strange problems using solaris-minimal-server

Scott S.Apr 6 2016 — edited Apr 9 2016

Hey,

Had a few issues when using solaris-minimal-server pkg for my systems. Reason for using this is to minimize my environment to save on storage space to be efficient. Idea was Gz as minimal to be more like a "hyper-visor" while KZ or NGZ can be of other types like small server. One problem is man pages aren't included and I've searched around on Oracle's Docs. I don't see why I can't view any man pages. Am I missing some simple piece of knowledge? (even tried playing with doc.man facets). This only occurs on the minimal install.

said system:

pkg info system/manual

          Name: system/manual

       Summary: On-Line Manual Pages

   Description: System Reference Manual Pages

      Category: System/Text Tools

         State: Installed

     Publisher: solaris

       Version: 0.5.11

Build Release: 5.11

        Branch: 0.175.3.0.0.28.0

Packaging Date:  2 August 2015 21:35:31

          Size: 3.96 MB

          FMRI: pkg://solaris/system/manual@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.3.0.0.28.0:20150802T213531Z

root@SS-Server:~# man zfs

-bash: man: command not found

root@SS-Server:~# pkg facet

FACET                                                            VALUE SRC

doc.*                                                            True local

doc.man                                                          True  local

locale.*                                                         False local

locale.en                                                        True  local

locale.en_GB                                                     True  local

Also I've followed other published blogs and documents and had other odd issues for example sharing storage with SMB and everything was correctly setup and client side could detect the remote drive but could not connect, using passwd and user based authentication or even guest accounts would not work either! Also tried configuring Solaris AI server on a minimal server and have other odd issues and no client can even receive a boot-file from PXE boot. 

dmesg things like: - yet I can ssh to this host and no issues found on network that I can see....

Apr  6 12:17:17 host dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.error] send_packet: Network is unreachable

Apr  6 12:17:17 host dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.error] send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address.

Apr  6 12:17:17 host dhcpd: [ID 702911 local7.error] dhcp.c:3264: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over net0 interface.

Apr  6 12:19:50 host mDNSResponder: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4

# installadm list

Service Name      Status Arch Type Secure Alias Aliases Clients Profiles Manifests

------------      ------ ---- ---- ------ ----- ------- ------- -------- ---------

Solaris-11-3      on     i386 iso  no     no    1       1       0        1       

Solaris-11-3-test on     i386 iso  no     no    0       0       0        1       

default-i386      on     i386 iso  no     yes   0       0       0        1

# installadm create-service -n Solaris-11-3-test1 -s /rpool/ISO/sol-11_3-ai-x86.iso -d /rpool/install/images/Sol-11-3-test1

  0% : 'Automatic' network configuration is enabled.  Please be sure that the IP address for host is static.

  0% : Creating service from: /rpool/ISO/sol-11_3-ai-x86.iso

34% : Transferring contents

34% : Creating i386 service: Solaris-11-3-test1

34% : Image path: /rpool/install/images/Sol-11-3-test1

34% : Setting "solaris" publisher URL in default manifest to:

34% :  http://192.168.1.100/

100% : Created Service: 'Solaris-11-3-test1'

100% : Refreshing SMF service svc:/system/install/server:default

100% : Service 'Solaris-11-3-test1' has been added to the mDNS registry

host IP is assigned by the router to the exact same IP over net0 every time on that exact interface so is always showing:

ifconfig -a

lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1

        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

net0: flags=100001004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,PHYSRUNNING> mtu 1500 index 2

        inet 192.168.1.100 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255

        ether 0:30:18:a8:a9:c2

net1: flags=100001004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,PHYSRUNNING> mtu 1500 index 3

        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000

        ether 0:30:18:a8:a9:c3

lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252 index 1

        inet6 ::1/128

net0: flags=120002000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,PHYSRUNNING> mtu 1500 index 2

        inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fea8:a9c2/10

        ether 0:30:18:a8:a9:c2

net1: flags=120002000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,PHYSRUNNING> mtu 1500 index 3

        inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fea8:a9c3/10

        ether 0:30:18:a8:a9:c3

# pkg publisher

PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION

solaris                     origin   online F http://192.168.1.100/

solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/

I'm using a HTTP interface and can access the repo I created from a browser, I can also use the AI wizard on port 5555. This should all be quite basic stuff to setup. no problems with any services.

# pkgrecv -s http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/ -d /rpool/IPS/repoSolaris11-3 '*'

# pkgrepo info -s /rpool/IPS/repoSolaris11-3

PUBLISHER PACKAGES STATUS           UPDATED

solaris   5681     online           2016-03-06T00:47:18.204037Z

# svcs -x

#


anyone experimented with this minimal install? Ideas?

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