OpenSolaris 2009.06: Need help with updating my system

[Matthias Andersson]

Hello!

I'm runnign OpenSolaris 2009.06 in a WMware virtual environment. The
install went fine, update manager reports about new updates (1377
packages) being available but it always seems to fail during the
download stage of the process.

I've even tried to run pfexec pkg image-update -nv but that also fails
while downloading the packages.

I've tried a wired connection instead of the wireless to see if that
would help but it didn't. I tried looking for mirror repositories but
without success.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Matthias Andersson

[John D Groenveld]

Post by Matthias Andersson
I'm runnign OpenSolaris 2009.06 in a WMware virtual environment. The
install went fine, update manager reports about new updates (1377
packages) being available but it always seems to fail during the
download stage of the process.

Why unsupported OpenSolaris 2009.06 instead of supported OpenIndiana?

John
***@acm.org

[Chris Ridd]

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Hello!
I'm runnign OpenSolaris 2009.06 in a WMware virtual environment. The
install went fine, update manager reports about new updates (1377
packages) being available but it always seems to fail during the
download stage of the process.
I've even tried to run pfexec pkg image-update -nv but that also fails
while downloading the packages.

It will fail if your network connection to pkg.opensolaris.org is poor,
but there are some environment variables you can set which will help. I
pulled these from
/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/__init__.py on S11X;
check the equivalent file in 2009.06 to make sure they existed back
then.

# Maximum number of timeouts before client gives up.
PKG_CLIENT_MAX_TIMEOUT
# Number of seconds trying to connect before client aborts
PKG_CLIENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
# Number of seconds below lowspeed limit before transaction is aborted
PKG_CLIENT_LOWSPEED_TIMEOUT
# Number of transient errors before transaction is aborted
PKG_CLIENT_MAX_CONSECUTIVE_ERROR
# Number of redirects before a connection is aborted
PKG_CLIENT_MAX_REDIRECT

[Matthias Andersson]

I installed openIndiana, it wasn't much of a hazzle since I hadn't done
much with that virtual machine.

Cheers,
Matthias