hello everyone, I can't update my omnios installation

lem_urist - I'm sure we can help with that. What's happening and what version are you trying to upgrade from and to?

The system seems to fail to create a new boot environment, I think it has to do with a boot archive corruption, but I'm not really knowledgeable about SunOS to be sure

let me send you a privatebin

Ok. I have to step away for 5 minutes then I'll be back.

No probs

I'm running r151054i btw

trying to update to 54v

I'm back

Could you try: BE_PRINT_ERR=true beadm create backup-09102025

Well that's really strange. How are you for disk space? Could I have `df -h` and `beadm list -s`?

sure

Nothing out of the ordinary there. There are a few orphaned snapshots that we could clean up but that's all.

How about the output of this (will be quite long): truss -flea beadm create backup-09102025

geez, sure it is

okay let me copy it for you

Thanks - you can add `-o <file>` to put it in a file too if that helps

oh I just redirected all stderr to a file haha

Still working my way through that. Does `zfs mount -a` show any errors?

`cannot mount '/rpool': directory is not empty

`cannot mount '/rpool': directory is not empty`

zfs list -o name,mountpoint

df -h /rpool/*

er, sorry: stat /rpool/*

truss -t stat,mount zfs mount -a

Ok, last one I think: zfs get all rpool

Ok, so the fact that your `rpool` dataset is not mounted is the problem - the "mounted no" in there confirms it, but I'm not sure how that could have happened.

Maybe it was me messing up with the filesystem manually, how should it be mounted and how could I get this done? I tried rebooting the system yesterday but had problems shutting down the system.

The easiest way to fix it is going to be in single user mode if you are ok to switch to that.

I can talk you through i

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Okay, but I would need to attach an external monitor and peripherals to this machine, let me see how could I do it

Well we could also probably do it by shutting down services, zones and unmounting things which might be easier.

Can I do it through SSH?

Yes

Let's go then, should I run an init command after shutting down services and zones?

No, just stop all the zones and any services (if any) that use datasets under /rpool

You can stop all zones with `svcadm disable -t zones` if that's easier

Your home directory will be the trickiest one to unmount. Can you ssh in directly as root?

Let me install my pubkey real quick for that

Zones are shutted down

Oh, no, that one is probably ok because it mounts at /home. We will see

So now unmount the filesystems one by one that are mounted under /rpool

df -h | grep ' /rpool'

Then: zfs umount rpool/bastion

etc.

If any don't unmount, then look to see what's using them

OK cool

I count 8 of them

They're all umounted

Ok, great, now what's left in `/rpool`? do something like `ls -lR /rpool`

Only rpool/zones/iso, I think that one didn't get umounted

That's mounted under `/zones/iso/` though

So this might be something old

Yup, it is

Ultimately we need to completely clean out everything in /rpool/

Okay there's only empty directories right now

Should I remove them all?

Yes because they're actually in the root filesystem

and they stopping `rpool` from mounting on `/rpool`

Huh, got it

When that's empty, try `zfs mount -a` again to mount everything again

Okay, clean, now I should try to mount rpool right?

Okay

No errors

and if you get no errors.. try creating a BE again with beadm

Yeah, created successfully

Ok, you should be ok now. It was something about the way the iso dataset was created or moved or...

And no problems with the update either

Thank you very much for your help!!! I'm still relatively new in illumos and I'm having a great time using it as my NAS server, thought I messed up the boot there, thank you very much for your quick response and help :)

You're welcome.