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# 8  
Old 07-25-2011
They gave you very good help.

What does
Code:
pwck
grpck

show. pwck should have a lot of nasty-grams.

Things might be bad enough that rebooting means you would lose the system and have to do a restore. We need to see before we tell you to do something stupid.
# 9  
Old 07-26-2011
Thanks a lot dude..But since my /etc/passwd file si not accessible it doesn't show any meaning ful o/p...Please chek the logs

Code:
root@ecosdp26a>pwck

        Too many/few fields

J       Too many/few fields

,       Too many/few fields

ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

        Too many/few fields

Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
They gave you very good help.

What does
Code:
pwck
grpck

show. pwck should have a lot of nasty-grams.

Things might be bad enough that rebooting means you would lose the system and have to do a restore. We need to see before we tell you to do something stupid.
---------- Post updated at 03:42 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:06 PM ----------

Moreover I am getting my /var/adm/messgaes as shown below

Code:
root@ecosdp26a # tail /var/adm/messages
Jul 26 10:50:06 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 1760, fs = /
Jul 26 10:50:06 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 1762, fs = /
Jul 26 10:50:06 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 1764, fs = /
Jul 26 10:50:06 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 1772, fs = /
Jul 26 10:50:06 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 1777, fs = /
Jul 26 10:50:07 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 78, fs = /
Jul 26 10:50:07 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 110, fs = /
Jul 26 10:53:25 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 78, fs = /
Jul 26 10:55:02 ecosdp26a last message repeated 1 time
Jul 26 10:57:59 ecosdp26a ufs: [ID 893081 kern.warning] WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 78, fs = /
root@ecosdp26a #

# 10  
Old 07-26-2011
As I already wrote in the first reply: Your file system looks seriously broken.

There logs just confirm that. Time for a system restore likely along with a disk replacement.
# 11  
Old 07-26-2011
Dude even I m thinking of the same..However I dont have any tape backup of the FS...I can try for fsck check and repair..I can even try the disk replacement..But could you please provide me the steps to be followed?..or the MOP of the activity to be carried out?..Please help me coz i m in serious trouble here..

The same issue resides with 5 more SDP's.(Solaris Nodes)
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
As I already wrote in the first reply: Your file system looks seriously broken.

There logs just confirm that. Time for a system restore likely along with a disk replacement.
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