Solaris 8 to 10 upgrade

Question

I was trying solaris 8 to solaris 10 upgrade (few straight forward upgrades and few live upgrade) on 3 different systems and all three systems are failing to boot with solaris 10 and panicing with the following message after the successful upgrade. Any of you experienced the similar issue ? Any help or pointer would be greatly appreciaed.
{0} ok boot -s
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a File and args: -s
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118822-25 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
misc/consconfig:consconfig_get_usb_kb_path() not defined properly
panic[cpu0]/thread=180e000: mod_hold_stub: Couldn't load stub module misc/consconfig
000000000180b890 genunix:mod_hold_stub+1f0 (0, 185e000, 18a7c48, 60000921a50, 18170c0, 0)
%l0-3: 000000007003fc00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000080000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
000000000180b940 unix:stubs_common_code+30 (3a2fed74715, 4dd9e6, 2c7253bc, 0, 16a00, 0)
%l0-3: 000000000180b209 000000000180b2e1 00000000bf000000 0000000000000001
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 00000000018170d0 0000000000000000 00000300003b6028
000000000180ba10 genunix:main+134 (18a8010, 18a4000, 1835c00, 185fc00, 180e000, 1813c00)
%l0-3: 0000000070002000 0000000000000001 000000000180c000 0000000000000002
%l4-7: 00000000018ab100 00000000018ab000 00000000018a8020 00000000018a8000
syncing file systems... done

Answer 1

We got the same error on two V880 production machines going from 8 to 10 and
since we could not afford the downtime to rebuild we had to research the problem
and found the precise opposite of the previous poster.
We had too many packages.
Specifically the Solaris 8 package SUNWcarx was not backed out on the upgrade.
Since there is no SUNWcarx package in Solaris 10 we were left with Solaris 8 drivers
in /platform and /kernel.
The upgrade seemed to have been deficient due to a pkginfo deficiency. For some reason
pkginfo on the Solaris 8 box did not list SUNWcarx , but pkgchk -v SUNWcarx would list
out its files. If upgrade used pkginfo to figure out what packages to back out and failed
to use all available info ( from pkgchk ) then it would leave a package.
So the solution for us was to just delete the files. Here is a script that will flag all the bad files for you. It asumes you have your new Solaris 10 mounted on /tmp/mnt/0 and checks
all the files in the OS directories. You will find that all the bad files are dated between
the year 2000 and 2004, with a few exceptions from January 2005. All the files flagged should be a subset of the files pkgchk -v SUNWcarx generates on Solaris 8.
Some of the files in the SUNWcarx package have been adopted by Solaris 10 so you cannot just delete all the files in the package file list generated under Solaris 8.
Anyway here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
# This script checks every file under /kernel, /platform, /lib, /sbin and /bin.
# A logfile called CHECK_KERNEL_LOG_${NOW} is created
# Any file that does not match its package is listed.
# Conf files tend to have modtime, size and checksum differences because these are use modified.
# The error to look for is "No information associated with pathname",
# this means it does not belong to any package.
# There is a good chance it can be deleted if it is an os directory.
# Script assumes root mounted at /tmp/mnt/0, change MOUNTED_AT variable if different
# Every file checked is listed, only those with error messages are of concern
#set -xv
getword ()
awk '{print $'$1' }'
timestamp ()
date '+%Y_%j__%B_%d__%H:%M:%S'
# pkgchk can only check 1000 files at a shot so........
read_900_and_check(){
LINES_COUNTED=0
CHECK_LIST=/tmp/LIST_OF_FILES_TO_CHECK_${NOW}
ALL_CHECK_LIST=/tmp/ALL_LIST_OF_FILES_TO_CHECK_${NOW}
while read ALINE
do
LINES_COUNTED=`expr $LINES_COUNTED + 1 `
echo $ALINE >> $CHECK_LIST
if [ $LINES_COUNTED -gt 900 ]
then
pkgchk -v -R $MOUNTED_AT -i $CHECK_LIST
LINES_COUNTED=0
cat $CHECK_LIST >> $ALL_CHECK_LIST
rm $CHECK_LIST
fi
done
pkgchk -v -R $MOUNTED_AT -i $CHECK_LIST
cat $CHECK_LIST >> $ALL_CHECK_LIST
# MAIN #
NOW=`timestamp`
MOUNTED_AT=/tmp/mnt/0
exec > CHECK_KERNEL_LOG_${NOW} 2>&1
cd $MOUNTED_AT
( du -a kernel
du -a lib
du -a platform
du -a bin
du -a sbin ) | getword 2 | sed 's/^/\//' | read_900_and_check
# END OF SCRIPT
hopefully I cut and pastes that correctly.....
addtionally here are the deletes we needed to repair the upgrade:
#!/bin/bash
set -xv
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/drv/sparcv9/lebuffer
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/drv/sparcv9/qe
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/drv/sparcv9/qec
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/misc/sparcv9/seg_drv
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/misc/sparcv9/seg_mapdev
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/strmod/sparcv9/authmd5h
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/strmod/sparcv9/authsha1
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/dacf/sparcv9/consconfig_dacf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/ledma
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/kernel/drv/gptwo.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/kernel/drv/sparcv9/bbc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/kernel/drv/sparcv9/gptwo
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire/kernel/drv/sgenv.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire/kernel/drv/sparcv9/sgenv
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/stc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/misc/sparcv9/pcmcia
rm /tmp/mnt/0/kernel/misc/sparcv9/ufs_log
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T12/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T4/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T4/kernel/misc/sparcv9
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Serverblade1/kernel
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Serverblade1/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/kernel
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000/kernel/cpu
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R/kernel/drv
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/kernel/misc/sparcv9/sbdp
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V250/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire/kernel/cpu
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-250/kernel
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/kernel
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/kernel
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-80/kernel
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-80/kernel/misc/sparcv9
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise/kernel
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/kernel/misc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/dacf/sparcv9
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/pci_pci
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/sun4u/kernel/misc/sparcv9/consconfig
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T12/kernel/drv/lw8.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T12/kernel/drv/sgenv.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T12/kernel/drv/sgfru.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T12/kernel/drv/sparcv9/lw8
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T12/kernel/drv/sparcv9/sgenv
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T12/kernel/drv/sparcv9/sgfru
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Netra-T4/kernel/drv/lombus.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Serverblade1/kernel/drv/bscbus.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Serverblade1/kernel/drv/bscv.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Serverblade1/kernel/drv/options.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Serverblade1/kernel/drv/sparcv9/bscv
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/kernel/drv/grppm.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/kernel/drv/sparcv9/grfans
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/kernel/drv/sparcv9/grppm
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000/kernel/drv/sparcv9/xcalppm
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000/kernel/drv/xcalppm.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000/kernel/drv/dman.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000/kernel/drv/schpc.conf
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000/kernel/drv/sparcv9/axq
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000/kernel/drv/sparcv9/schpc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000/kernel/misc/sparcv9/mboxsc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R/kernel/drv/sparcv9/pcf8574
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/kernel/drv/sparcv9/hpc3130
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire/kernel/drv/sparcv9/sgcn
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire/kernel/drv/sparcv9/sghsc
rm /tmp/mnt/0/platform/SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise/kernel/drv/sparcv9/sram
# Hope it helps....