VRTSvxfen package fails to install in the non-global zone after upgrade to SF 6.0.1

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Description

Error Message

===== VRTSvxfen ====
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: duplicate pathname
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to process pkgmap

Installation of on zone failed (internal error).
No changes were made to the system.

Cause

 

Resolution

The VRTSvxfen package is not required inside a non-global zone and the error can be safely ignored.

In 6.1, Engineering are changing the behavior of VRTSvxfen to not to install even metadata(package) inside non-global zone.


Issue/Introduction

All the non-global zones are detached prior to upgrading the SF to 6.0.1 in global zones, After upgrade "zoneadm -z <ZoneName> attach -u" is performed to update the non-global zones with the new version of SF. All the SF packages installed fine except VRTSvxfen