Solaris

I have two zones that I just shut down. They showed up fine before I shut them down when I did the zoneadm list -cv command. Now they've vanished! The xml files are still present under /etc/zones, and the file systems are still mounted. I have even restarted the zones service, and rebooted the global zone to see if that would fix it. I seriously don't won't to have to reconfigure them from scratch. I've never seen this sort of strange behavior before. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to bring the zones back??

thanks!

What says:

Code:

ls -ltr /etc/zones

?

I actually just a few minutes ago solved the problem on my own. I spent two hours digging around to find what was wrong until after numerous troubleshooting I finally came down to one file someone had manipulated previously. I finally discovered the problem when I noticed the zone came up fine in zonecfg, but when I tried to change the autoboot setting it gave me an index error when I tried to commit the change. That lead me to the index file, and ultimately the solution. Under /etc/zones someone had renamed the index file to another name. The zones were operating fine until zoneadm had to utilize the index file when I started issuing zlogin and zoneadm commands to it. Thankfully there was a backup of the index file. I put the file back, and restarted the zones SMF service. The zones then came up successfully. Now I can resume my scheduled maintenance after a 2 hour delay....

Anyway, I hope this helps someone else in the future. It always seems to come down to something simple -- it's just finding the solution that can be a pain in the rear.

That was the kind of issues I suspected and the reason why I asked for "ls -ltr /etc/zones" output.

Yeah, you probably would of had the answer for me after seeing my directory listing. I was looking at the xml files, but didn't think of the index file.

thanks!

s/probably/certainly/