Hi Folks,
I was able to get over this hump by recreating the test machine (VM). I decided to install Soalris 10 update 8 (X86 - 64bit). Both the fresh install and test upgrade from 6.5.4 went fine without any problems.
Unfortunately, right now, I'm doing the actual upgrade on the production machine and it froze at the part when its starting the daemons after the upgrade :( I have a pro-active ticket with Symantec. Calling them now.....
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Populating the database tables. This will take some time.
Starting the Media Manager device daemon processes.
Do you want to start the NetBackup bprd process so
backups and restores can be initiated? [y,n] (y)
Starting the NetBackup request daemon process (bprd).
Starting the NetBackup Job Manager.
Starting the NetBackup Policy Execution Manager.
Starting the NetBackup Storage Lifecycle Manager.
Starting the NetBackup Remote Monitoring Management System.
Starting the NetBackup Key Management daemon.
Starting the NetBackup Service Layer.
Starting the NetBackup Agent Request Server.
Starting the NetBackup Bare Metal Restore daemon.
Starting the NetBackup Vault daemon.
Starting the NetBackup Service Monitor.
Starting the NetBackup Bare Metal Restore Boot Server daemon.
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