2008-10 mercury upgrade

... this failed because the global zone detected that the IP number was in use, resulting in this obscure message:

Installation of these packages generated errors: <CSWisaexec SUNWservicetagu SUNWstosreg> The file </zone/mercury/root/var/sadm/system/logs/install_log> contains a log of the zone installation.

The IP address previously set on the network interface ? f????<???@? ?? is no longer available. The system state is corrupted. System identification can no longer continue.

Each Zone

Finally