Problem building Hobbit on a Solaris 10 zone - Summary/Resolution 🔗 link

Hi again,
      The various replies set me thinking again.

The non-global zone is indeed a whole root zone.  However, the users home
directory filesystem /export is a loopback filesystem from the global zone,
so that users in all the zones share a common home directory structure.  I
was building the hobbit kit in a subdirectory of /export/home/user1.  I had
tried running the config/make sequence as both user1 and as root, both
failed as previously described.

As a result of the replies, I tried unpacking the kit in the root
filesystem, in /usr/local.  I ran the configure/make sequence as root (I
know, it's not best practice, but I was getting desperate) and it worked!

I don't fully understand why - I thought hte root filesystem in a
non-global zone was effectively a loopback filesystem similar to my /export
filesystem, but that's the only difference I can see between this and my
previous efforts.

I now have a problem with the make install, but that looks like a simple
library path issue, so back to trawling the mail archives for me :-)

Thanks again for all the contributions,

              Cheers,

                        John

What's your /etc/zones/<zonename>.xml look like?  Is it loopback mounted
r/o, or r/w?

---Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: John P Martin [mailto:user-18313e92e552@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:10
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Problem building Hobbit on a Solaris 10 zone -
Summary/Resolution

Hi again,
      The various replies set me thinking again.

The non-global zone is indeed a whole root zone.  However, the users
home
directory filesystem /export is a loopback filesystem from the global
zone,
so that users in all the zones share a common home directory structure.
I
was building the hobbit kit in a subdirectory of /export/home/user1.  I
had
tried running the config/make sequence as both user1 and as root, both
failed as previously described.

As a result of the replies, I tried unpacking the kit in the root
filesystem, in /usr/local.  I ran the configure/make sequence as root (I
know, it's not best practice, but I was getting desperate) and it
worked!

I don't fully understand why - I thought hte root filesystem in a
non-global zone was effectively a loopback filesystem similar to my
/export
filesystem, but that's the only difference I can see between this and my
previous efforts.

I now have a problem with the make install, but that looks like a simple
library path issue, so back to trawling the mail archives for me :-)

Thanks again for all the contributions,

              Cheers,

                        John

Hi Eric,

The extract from the XML file for this filesystem is:

  <filesystem special="/export/home" directory="/export/home" type="lofs"/>

To make it easier, here's the extract from the zonecfg export command:

add fs
set dir=/export/home
set special=/export/home
set type=lofs
end

As far as I am aware, this defaults to r/w - at least, I was readily able
to unpack the kit in the filesystem,

              Cheers,

                        John