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Oracle VM: Update To SRU57 Fails In Solaris Servers Managed By OVM (Doc ID 2959178.1)

Last updated on MAY 22, 2024

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 11.4 to 11.4 [Release 11.0]
Oracle VM - Version 3.4.1 and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)

Symptoms

Updating Solaris 11.4 SRU to 57 or later reports several packages related to OVM must be uninstalled or upgraded.
The reason is mentioned as : "All acceptable versions of 'require' dependency on runtime/python-27 are obsolete".

The following is a sample from a dry run of pkg update to SRU57

# pkg update -nv --accept entire@11.4-11.4.57.0.1.144.3
Creating Plan (Solver setup): |
pkg update: Package 'ovm/storage-connect/plugins/oracle-generic' must be uninstalled or upgraded if the requested operation is to be performed.
Reject: pkg://ovm/ovm/storage-connect/plugins/oracle-generic@1.1.0-3.4.6.0.0.2921
Reason: All acceptable versions of 'require' dependency on runtime/python-27 are obsolete
Package 'ovm/storage-connect/plugins/oracle-zfs' must be uninstalled or upgraded if the requested operation is to be performed.
Reject: pkg://ovm/ovm/storage-connect/plugins/oracle-zfs@1.0.0-3.4.6.0.0.2921
Reason: All acceptable versions of 'require' dependency on runtime/python-27 are obsolete
Package 'ovm/storage-connect/plugin-manager' must be uninstalled or upgraded if the requested operation is to be performed.
Reject: pkg://ovm/ovm/storage-connect/plugin-manager@1.2.8-3.4.6.0.0.2921
Reason: All acceptable versions of 'require' dependency on runtime/python-27 are obsolete
Package 'ovm/ovs-agent' must be uninstalled or upgraded if the requested operation is to be performed.
Reject: pkg://ovm/ovm/ovs-agent@3.4.6-3.4.6.0.0.2921
Reason: No version matching 'require' dependency ovm/storage-connect/plugin-manager can be installed
Package 'ovm/extra/urlgrabber' must be uninstalled or upgraded if the requested operation is to be performed.
Reject: pkg://ovm/ovm/extra/urlgrabber@3.9.1-3.4.6.0.0.2921
Reason: All acceptable versions of 'require' dependency on runtime/python-27 are obsolete

Changes

Attempting to update to SRU57 from any older SRU versions of Solaris 11.4 in a server managed by OVM.

Cause

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