Solaris 10 will not Boot Properly

chungste · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2006

I am running Solaris 10 on a SPARC Sun Enterprise 420R server. It was working properly, when there was a problem with the power and it shut off without a proper shutdown.

When I boot I get the following error:

Code:

Error: svc:/system/filesystem/root:default failed to mount /boot (see 'svcs -x' for details)
[ system/filesystem/root:default failed fatally (see 'svcs -x' for details) ]
Requesting System Maintenance Mode
Console login service(s) cannot run

I then enter in my root password for system maintenance. When I run svcs -x, this is the output:

Code:

svc:/system/filesystem/root:default (root file system mount)
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL
see: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
see: /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-root:default.log
Impact: 44 dependent services are not running.  (use -v for list.)
 
svc:/network/rpc/gss:default (Generic Security Service)
State: uninitialized since Sat......
Reason: Restarter svc:network/inetd:default is not running
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-5H
See: gssd(1M)
Impact: 10 dependent services are not running.  (Use -v for list)
 
svc:/application/print/server:default (LP print server)
State: disabled since Sat Sep 30.....
Reason: Disabled by an administrator
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05
See: lpsched(1M)
Impact: 1 dependent service is not running.  (Use -V for list)

The output for svcs -v is too long to type out here, but it lists all the dependent services, I presume.

The content of the file /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-root:default.log is:

Code:

[start + 1.91s Enabled. ]
[start + 2.87s Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-root") ]
ERROR: /sbin/mount  -F ufs /boot failed, err=1
mount: Mount point cannot be determined
[ start + 3.12s Method "start" exited with status 95 ]

When I try to run /sbin/mount -F ufs /boot from the command prompt itself, I get a similar error... Mount point cannot be determined.

I have also tried running the command /sbin/mount -a which seems to work in terms of mounting the entire filesystem. At that point I can browse all data, but have no idea how to get the services started and server fully booted.

I have fun fsck and it runs completely with no prompts or errors.

Here is also a copy of my /etc/vfstab:

Code:

#device to mount     #device to fsck     mount point     FS type     fsck pass    mount at boot       mount options
 
fs     -     /dev/fs     fs     -     no     -
/proc     -     /proc     proc     -     no     -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1     -     -     swap     -     no     -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0     /     ufs     1    no     -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5     /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5    /usr    ufs    1    no     -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4     /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4    /var/   ufs     1     no     -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7     /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7    /export/home     ufs     2     yes     -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3     /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3     /opt     ufs     2     yes     -
/devices     -    /devices     devfs     -    no    -
ctfs     -     /system/contract     ctfs     -     no     -
objfs     -     /system/object    objfs     -    no     -
swap     -     /tmp     tmpfs     -    yes     -
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0     /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0     /data     ufs     1     yes     -

Sorry for the formatting, I had to type it out since I can't get any files directly off of the server.

The last entry in the vfstab file is the only entry I added myself. It is a secondary hard disk that I mounted to the directory /data. Everything else was automatically created at install according to the partitions that I defined.

Any ideas Solaris experts?

chungste · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2006

To anyone who cares about the solution to this problem, here are the steps I performed:

1) mount -o remount,rw /
This was run because I couldn't edit any files in the / filesystem
2) echo >> /etc/vfstab
This is to add the newline to the end of the vfstab file.

Rebooted, and everything came up fine.

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