Thanks to all who replied with advice.
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My original question posted was:
> I met a serious problem with our machine running Solaris 2.3. When I boot machine. It shows on the screen that:
>
> ...
> Configuring network interfaces: ifconfig: litho2: bad address
> le0: auto-revarp failed: no RARP replies received
> ...
> /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0: FILE SYSTEM STATE SET TO OKAY
> ..
> /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6: FILE SYSTEM STATE SET TO OKAY
> ...
> setting default interface for multicast: litho2: bad value
>
> The 'litho2' is the hostname of the machine. After I boot with singal user state, I check the interface address with the command 'ifconfig -a'. It shows:
>
> ....
> le0: flags=842<BROASCAST, RUNNING MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
> ether 8:0:20:6:d6:8c
>
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Suggestion are:
1. Check that /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname.le0 files are correct.
2. Check that /etc/nodename and /etc/netmasks files are correct.
Contributors:
P.Rajasekar rajsekar@eclipse.india.hp.com
Bill Maggio bmaggio@lci.com
Pell Emanuelsson pell@lysator.liu.se
Rahul Roy roy@mss.mss.com
Bill Holzapfel billh@killians.dcvast.com
Tim Bradshaw tfb@aiai.ed.ac.uk
Ian Fox fox@altech.com
Alan Chan alanc@jumbo1.me.CdnAir.CA
Robert Lopez lopez@abqato.scs.philips.com
Paulo Licio de Geus paulo@dcc.unicamp.br
Jim Levie levie@dynetics.com
Philip Kao Philip.Kao@artecon.com
Glenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.au
Brett Lymn blymn@awadi.com.AU
Stuart Little Stuart.Little@ssu.stcssl.co.uk
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Solution:
In /etc/hosts file, the line with hostname and IP address was absent. After adding it and then booting the machine, the problem was fixed.
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Thanks again to all who responded.
Lingxiu Jiao E-mail: lingxiu@cc.umanitoba.ca
Department of Gelogical Sciences Tel(O): 204-474-8415
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
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