Problem creating full root zones

UNIX Solaris
1

OK, the situation is that I am trying to avoid full root zones whenever possible but I need at least /usr writable as this zone will be using apache as installed as a Solaris package.

So....I created a new zone and every time I try to remove any inherited package directories, the below occurs. This is 10/9 SPARC box with the lastest patch cluster installed. What am I doing wrong?

zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> create
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> set zonepath=/zpool/zones/cf9tomcatzone
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> set autoboot=true
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> remove inherit-pkg-dir
Are you sure you want to remove ALL 'inherit-pkg-dir' resources (y/[n])? y
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> add net
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone:net> set physical=bge0
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone:net> set address=192.168.246.26
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone:net> set defrouter=192.168.246.1
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone:net> info
net:
	address: 192.168.246.26
	physical: bge0
	defrouter: 192.168.246.1
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone:net> end
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> verify
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> info
zonename: cf9tomcatzone
zonepath: /zpool/zones/cf9tomcatzone
brand: native
autoboot: true
bootargs: 
pool: 
limitpriv: 
scheduling-class: 
ip-type: shared
net:
	address: 192.168.246.26
	physical: bge0
	defrouter: 192.168.246.1
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> commit
zonecfg:cf9tomcatzone> exit
-bash-3.00# zoneadm -z cf9tomcatzone install
Preparing to install zone <cf9tomcatzone>.
Creating list of files to copy from the global zone.
Copying <3916> files to the zone.
Initializing zone product registry.
Determining zone package initialization order.
Preparing to initialize <5> packages on the zone.
Initialized <5> packages on zone.                                
Zone <cf9tomcatzone> is initialized.
Installation of <1200> packages was skipped.
The file </zpool/zones/cf9tomcatzone/root/var/sadm/system/logs/install_log> contains a log of the zone installation.

-bash-3.00# zoneadm -z cf9tomcatzone boot
zoneadm: zone 'cf9tomcatzone': mount of /proc failed: No such file or directory
zoneadm: zone 'cf9tomcatzone': unable to mount filesystems
zoneadm: zone 'cf9tomcatzone': call to zoneadmd failed
2

Where you trying to configure alot of times? Maybe it will et corrupt.
If the zone is in configured state now, remove the config files(uninstall and delete the zone), reboot the servers and re-try creating the zone with no mistakes.

  1. remove the zone entry in /etc/zones/index

  2. delete the xml file associated with the zone under /etc/zones

  3. delete the directory associated with the zone (if it has been created)

3

What apache package are you using ? Correctly built ones should have their configuration files under /etc. If you are using broken packages that use /usr/local, you can simply stay with sparse zones and add a read-write lofs mount point for /usr/local.

By the way, the usual way to create whole root zones is "create -b".