SUMMARY RE: Failed write of utmpx entry " "

From: Rahul Parasnis (rahul.parasnis@creditlyonnais.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 22:58:00 CST


I didn't found the exact cause but there must be a corruption or some
charactors in a file.

Finally I erase the 0th slice copied it from the mirrored one and it clicked.
Thanks to Marco green for his instant reply.
Thanks again to all of you

- Rahul

---------------------- Forwarded by Rahul Parasnis/JPN/International/CLY on
12/02/99 01:48 PM ---------------------------

Rahul Parasnis
12/02/99 12:53 PM
To: mgreene@sympatico.ca @ internet
cc:
Subject: RE: Failed write of utmpx entry " "

Infact it is happening at the of boot , that's why I am confused
Problem is I can not go to single user and so what is mounted , it says
entering system maintenance mode
su - root susceede for root on /dev/syscon
ksh: cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
Do you have any idea ?

Thanks for your response.
- Rahul

mgreene@sympatico.ca on 12/02/99 12:47:00 PM
To: Rahul Parasnis/JPN/International/CLY@CLY
cc:
Subject: RE: Failed write of utmpx entry " "

Try and make sure that the /var filesystem is mounted at that point in
 time.
This message always appears at the end of a shutdown...but there it is
normal. Shouldn't be happening at boot time.....

Hope this helps,
Marco Greene
mgreene@symaptico.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
[mailto:owner-sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu]On Behalf Of Rahul
Parasnis
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 10:25 PM
To: sun-managers
Subject: Failed write of utmpx entry " "

Hello Admins,

I have came across this problem many times , main reason of this problem is
vfstab.
But this time I am wondering what could be the remedy for this.

I have two 4GB disks , One is OS disk and other is empty.
I do ufsdump to other disk everyday as mirror . I do installboot and modify
the
vfstab according to disk slice ID as well.

I decided to check this other disk for booting.
It worked....., I was happy. Then again I tried to boot from original
disk ,
there it started me giving problems.
 I changed nothing for this original disk

INIT : Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx

INIT : Failed to write of utmpx entry : " "

INIT : Failed to write of utmpx entry : " "

Type cntrl-d to proceed normal startup ( or give root password for system
maintenance )
entering system maintenance mode
su - root susceede for root on /dev/syscon
ksh: cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1 ( Root's shell I modified to ksh - ksh
is
copied to /sbin to be available in single user mode )

If I boot from the c1t0d0s0 and mount the original disk's root partition

c0t0d0s0 ) everything appears fine. no Problems in vfstab
but I can not boot from my original disk(c0t0d0s0) now , but I can from the
copied one. i.e( c1t0d0s0)

Could anyone know how to fic this problem ,
Thanks in advance
- Rahul



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