Converting a Solaris Zone to a Kernel Zone (Oracle Solaris 11.4.34.94.4)

Hi All;

Having problems when following a well documented procedure of creating a 'kernel' zone from a operational solaris zone using UA. Bombs out near the end of the install with loads of the following messages:

2021-06-23 10:43:10,020  InstallationLogger CRITICAL  Failed Checkpoints:

2021-06-23 10:43:10,072  InstallationLogger ERROR

2021-06-23 10:43:10,122  InstallationLogger ERROR       apply-pkg-variant

2021-06-23 10:43:10,172  InstallationLogger ERROR

2021-06-23 10:43:10,222  InstallationLogger ERROR   Checkpoint execution error:

2021-06-23 10:43:10,273  InstallationLogger ERROR

2021-06-23 10:43:10,323  InstallationLogger ERROR       Command '['/usr/bin/pkg', '-R', '/a', 'change-variant', '-I', '--accept', 'variant.opensolaris.zone=global']' returned unexpected exit status 1

2021-06-23 10:43:10,373  InstallationLogger ERROR

2021-06-23 10:43:10,423  InstallationLogger ERROR       pkg change-variant: Package 'data/shared-mime-info' must be uninstalled or upgraded if the requested operation is to be performed.