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Old 03-03-2011
System stuck up in maintanence mode

Hi All,

I got a big problem here.
While setting up a sun cluster, I accidentally tried out "bootadm update-archive" as I was unable to bring the cluster up.
After which, i tried a reconfiguration reboot.

Now The system is always booting into maintanence mode with error message
Code:
"svc:/system/boot-archive:default: Method or service exit timed out.
Killing contract 31.
svc:system/boot-archive:default: Method "/lib/svc/methodboot-archive" failed due to signal KILL.
svc startd[7]: system/boot-archive:default failed: transitioned to maintenance."

Steps I have tried out:
1) Tried to rebuild boot-archive thru 'failsafe'
2) Tried svcadm clear system/boot-archive

svcs -x boot-archive shows the service is in maintanence mode with 75 dependant services not running.


Nothing worked outSmilie

Being a newbie, ur help at this point will be really appreciated.

Thanx in advance,
Manu

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 03-03-2011 at 05:14 PM..
# 2  
Old 03-03-2011
What does this command show:
Code:
tail -20 /etc/svc/volatile/system-boot-archive:default.log

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# 3  
Old 03-03-2011
Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/boot-archive")
Method or service exit timed out. Killing contract 12
Method start failed due to signal KILL
------------------------------------------

Same message repeated with contract 15, 17 ......
Smilie
# 4  
Old 03-03-2011
In maintenance mode try:
Code:
svccfg -s boot-archive setprop start/timeout_seconds=180

Then
Code:
init 6

# 5  
Old 03-03-2011
I am getting the following error message:

"svccfg: Unexpected libscf error on line 11040 of svccfg_libscf.c: backend is read only"

-Manu
# 6  
Old 03-03-2011
What does this say (post full output):
Code:
mount

# 7  
Old 03-03-2011
Code:
/ on pci@0,0/pci8086,25e3@3/pci103c,3234@0/sd@0,0: a read/write/setuid/devices/dev=800080 on Wed Dec31 16:00:00 1969
/devices on /devices read/write/setuid/devices/dev=47c0000 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011
/system/contract on ctfs read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4840001 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011
/proc on proc read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4800000 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011
/etc/mnttab on mnttab read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4880001 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011
/etc/svc/volatile on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=48c0001 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011
/system/object on objfs read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4900001 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011
/etc/dfs/sharetab on sharefs read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4940001 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011
/lib/libc.so.1 on /usr/lib/libc_hwcap1.so.1 read/write/setuid/devices/dev=800080 on Thu Mar 3 12:09:58 2011

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