Solaris Cluster 4.x Upgrade Fails with "Method "/usr/cluster/lib/scadmin/ips/install-scripts/core.ips-processing.ksh" failed with exit status 95."

(Doc ID 1980609.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 21, 2016

Applies to:

Solaris Cluster - Version OSC 4.0 and later
Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition - Version OSC 4.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

After running 'scinstall -u update -b -L accept' on both nodes of a 2 node Solaris Cluster 4.1, upon reboot SMF service (svc:/system/cluster/core-install:default) fails to start.

Both nodes boot into cluster, but core-install:default fails to start with following error in /var/adm/messages:

Changes

It was attempted to upgrade both Solaris and Solaris Cluster via the 'standard method' using alternate BE's.
It was upgraded from Solaris 11.1 to Solaris 11.2 and Solaris Cluster 4.1 0.18.2 to Solaris Cluster 4.2.2.2

Cause

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