"No version for 'optional' dependency..." when updating Solaris 11.3

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I'm having trouble updating Solaris 11.3. The problems below show up on both a DL360 G5 hardware (dual Xeons), and a VM guest (Core i7). The Solaris installations use Sun's image, and I did not perform any customization other than to enable their Software Repository for Sun Studio.

I found Adding and Updating Software in Oracle Solaris 11.3, but I have to admit I'm too inexperienced to use it to solve a problem that's not listed. Searching for some of the error messages is not producing anything useful.

What is the problem, and how do I fix it?

$ sudo pkg update
Creating Plan (Running solver): /
pkg update: No solution was found to satisfy constraints
No solution found to update to latest available versions.
This may indicate an overly constrained set of packages are installed.

latest incorporations:

  pkg://solaris/consolidation/sunpro/sunpro-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.3.9.0.2.0:20160528T012705Z

The following indicates why the system cannot update to the latest version:

    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/ncurses@5.7-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.12.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/ncurses@5.7-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.12.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-imaging-27@1.1.7-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/popt@1.16-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.12.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-imaging-27@1.1.7-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-imaging@1.1.7-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version matching 'conditional' dependency library/python/python-imaging-27@1.1.7,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.90.0 can be installed
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/file/gnu-findutils@4.6.0-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.12.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/file/gnu-findutils@4.5.14-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.12.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/popt@1.7-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.12.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-imaging@1.1.7-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  No version matching 'conditional' dependency library/python/python-imaging-27@1.1.7,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.95.0 can be installed
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-zope-interface-27@3.3.0-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-twisted-27@10.1.0-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-zope-interface-27@3.3.0-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
    Reason:  No version matching 'require' dependency library/python/python-zope-interface@3.3.0,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.95.0 can be installed
      ----------------------------------------
      Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-zope-interface@3.3.0-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
      Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
      ----------------------------------------
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-zope-interface@3.3.0-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  [already rejected; see above]
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-twisted@10.1.0-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
    Reason:  No version matching 'conditional' dependency library/python/python-twisted-27@10.1.0,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.95.0 can be installed
      ----------------------------------------
      Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-twisted-27@10.1.0-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
      Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
      ----------------------------------------
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-twisted-27@10.1.0-5.12.0.0.0.95.0
    Reason:  [already rejected; see above]
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-zope-interface@3.3.0-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found
    Reject:  pkg://solaris/library/python/python-twisted@10.1.0-5.12.0.0.0.90.0
    Reason:  No version for 'optional' dependency on consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation@5.12,5.11-5.12.0.0.0.14.0 can be found

jww

Posted 2016-06-23T22:44:27.707

Reputation: 1

Answers

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It looks like the Oracle docs on Installing Sun Studio missed a step.

To ensure the packages could update, this command needed to be run, which was found under Updating a Package Constrained by an Incorporation:

pkg change-facet facet.version-lock.consolidation/sunpro/sunpro-incorporation=false

Once the change was made, things completed as expected:

$ sudo ~/do-update.sh 
            Packages to update:   7
       Create boot environment:  No
Create backup boot environment: Yes

DOWNLOAD                                PKGS         FILES    XFER (MB)   SPEED
Completed                                7/7         69/69      3.8/3.8  1.5M/s

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Removing old actions                           29/29
Installing new actions                         39/39
Updating modified actions                      52/52
Updating package state database                 Done 
Updating package cache                           7/7 
Updating image state                            Done 
Creating fast lookup database                   Done 
Updating package cache                           2/2 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: Please review release notes posted at:

http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=solaris11&id=SERNS
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

EDIT: it was reported the solution works for SPARC based Solaris 11.3 as well as Intel hardware. Also see “No version for 'optional' dependency…” when updating Solaris 11.3 on SPARC hardware.

jww

Posted 2016-06-23T22:44:27.707

Reputation: 1

I can confirm this works on Solaris 11.3 on non-Oracle X86_64 hardware (Supermicro server) – Tim Kennedy – 2017-04-02T19:36:35.787

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I had to run sudo pkg update --accept, all worked with that accept flag. Running Solaris 11.3 in a Parallels VM environment on MacOS.

user747813

Posted 2016-06-23T22:44:27.707

Reputation: 1

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Here is a link how to solve these problems: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54739/constraints.html

user810197

Posted 2016-06-23T22:44:27.707

Reputation: 1

Please quote the essential parts of the answer from the reference link(s), as the answer can become invalid if the linked page(s) change. – DavidPostill – 2017-11-05T20:32:45.963

Asked: 2016-06-23T22:44:27.707

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