SUMMARY Boot into single user hangs (2)

From: Anja Mitchell (Anja.Mitchell@delm.tas.gov.au)
Date: Thu Jan 25 1996 - 04:28:42 CST


Hi all,

My original message:
 
we have a Sun Sparc10 with Solaris 2.4 and DiskSuite 4.0.

When I try to boot into single user mode it comes to the point where I can
enter the root password but after this is hangs.

The /etc/rcS.d directory looks okay to me.

I received one reply which suggested to do a power-cycle (which I had
already done) and to run diagnostics. I did this but nothing came out of it,
so my problem is not solved.

The responses after my last summary were absolutely overwhelming - thanks to
all of you who replied! Just to mention a few:

poole@ncifcrf.gov
bidwell@andrews.edu
matthew.stier.imonics.com
damiel.blander@ACSacs.com
mk@baerlap.north.de
carsten.hennig@amail.amdahl.com
jns@cicso.com
kevin.sheehan@uniq.com.au
woodsp@smtlink.Indigo.co.il

This list is not complete!

Anyway, some suggestions:
1. Put the -x option in the /sbin/rcS script at the /sbin/sh command
2. Just wait
3. Boot off CD into single user and do checksumming on /bin/sh, remove any
dotfiles out of /
4. Boot under kadb
5. Boot -r
6. It appears that once in a while something gets clobbered on disk and it
acts this way, the only way to fix it is reinstall Solaris software.

After I tried a few of the above things I came to the conclusion, that it is
a software problem and a reinstallation is needed, we are going to upgrade
to Solaris 2.5
anyway ...

Thanks again,
Anja
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Anja Mitchell
Corporate Information Technology
Dpt of Environment & Land Management
Tasmania, Australia

Mail: Anja.Mitchell@delm.tas.gov.au
Phone: (002) 333300
Fax: (002) 333717



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