General Information

This section provides general information such as behavior changes in the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release.

Initial Root Password After Live CD Installation

After a Live CD installation, the root password is initially set to the same password as the user account that is created during installation, but it is created in an expired state. In order to work around the issue described in Gksu Does Not Report Expired Password (6995127), immediately change the root password upon your first login. To do so, type the su command and enter your password, followed by typing the new root password, twice.

$ su
Password:
su: Password for user 'root' has expired
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
su: password successfully changed for root.

Oracle Solaris IPS Repository

When you install or upgrade to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, the system initially has one publisher configured: the solaris publisher. This publisher has the following repository origin.

http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/

Upgrading to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release

Use the following procedure to upgrade your OpenSolaris system to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release. First, you upgrade your OpenSolaris system to the current build in the OpenSolaris release repository. Then, you upgrade that system to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release.

How to Upgrade to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release

1. Upgrade all the packages on your OpenSolaris system to the most current version.
   1. If your preferred publisher is not opensolaris.org with an origin of http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/, change the publisher, as follows:

      # pkg set-publisher -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/ opensolaris.org

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      Note - To view your preferred publisher, perform this command:

      # pkg publisher

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   2. Update all the packages on the system.

      # pkg image-update

2. Reboot the system to boot into the updated boot environment.
3. Upgrade to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release.
   1. Enable packages on your system to be updated by a new publisher. If your system has the extra publisher configured, also enable its packages to be updated by a new publisher.

      # pkg set-publisher --non-sticky opensolaris.org
      # pkg set-publisher --non-sticky extra

   2. Set the preferred publisher to solaris with the origin set to http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/, as follows:

      # pkg set-publisher -P -g http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/ solaris

   3. Display the Oracle Solaris 11 Express license.

      # pkg image-update 2>&1 | less

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      Note - The pkg image-update command may indicate that the packaging software needs to be updated before proceeding with the update. Follow the directions and then reexecute the previous pkg image-update command.

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   4. If you accept the terms of the Oracle Solaris Express 11 license, upgrade your system and explicitly accept the license.

      # pkg image-update --accept

4. Reboot your system to boot into the updated boot environment.

   For more information, see Oracle Solaris 11 Express Image Packaging System Guide. Also, see the pkg(1) man page.

Renaming of Packages (6186)

Over 1500 packages have been renamed in this release. The old names for the packages have been retained for now and point to the new names. The process of updating packages is an automatic process. You can determine the names of the new packages by looking at the Renamed to line in the output of the pkg info -r SUNWoldpackage command.

For a list of package mappings, classifications, and descriptions, see the following link:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+pkg/Renamed

First Packaging Operation After Upgrade Removes Hundreds of Empty Packages (14507)

The first packaging operation after you have upgraded your system to the latest release removes hundreds of empty packages. The removed packages are empty, renamed packages that are being purged from the system.

Workaround: This large-scale removal of empty packages can safely be ignored.