[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,
JohnWhat'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:jmartin23 at csc.com] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:10 To: hobbit at hswn.dk 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,
JohnTo unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
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
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