[SunHELP] URGENT -Help Pls

[Chanaka Mendis]

Balaji srinivasan wrote:

> Hi Admins,
>            The box in distress is SS20 SUNOS 5.4. A power outage happenend
> and seems to have corrupted the files /var/adm/utmpx and utmp. When the
> system came back after power came back I get the msgs
>
> INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
>
> INIT : failed write of utmpx entry:"  "
>
> INIT : failed write of utmpx entry:"  "
>
> INIT : SINGLE USER MODE:
>
> Type  ctrl-d to proceed with normal boot
> (or give ROOT password for system maintenance mode)
>
> I gave the root password and renamed the files utmp and utmpx to utmp and
> utmpx.old and rebooted the system but got the same err msgs again.
> One thing to mention is that /var/adm is linked to /usr/informix/var/adm.
>
> Any ideas....pls reply back ASAP....
>
> Thanks,
> Balaji
>
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Login as root andCheck the file system using

fsck /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s?

where /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s? are the device paths to hard disks partitions.

/Gayantha