[SunHELP] Help please

[Ben Ricker]

I have received about 25 of the exact same message from the exact same
sender this whole past weekend: is anyone else having this problem?

Ben Ricker

On Fri, 25 May 2001 17:03:23 +0200 Steffen Grunewald wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > It seems that a power outage happenend and have corrupted the files
> > /var/adm/utmpx and utmp. 
> > When the system came back after power came back we 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
> 
> On Fri 2001-05-25 (08:17), Lund, Dennis wrote:
> > At my last job this error was caused because /var was not mounted at the
> > boot time when the 
> > system wants to write to /var/adm/utmp.  Without /var mounted at
> boot time,
> > the /var/adm path 
> > does not exist.  What we did to avoid this message was to unmount
> /var and
> > create the
> > path /var/adm.  This creates the path from /.
> >  
> > What it does is make the path /var/adm available at boot time
> without having
> > /var mounted.
> 
> Double Ouch!
> 
> 0. Please learn to quote. 
> 
> 1. There is an entry "mount at boot" in /etc/vfstab which should make
> sure that /var _is_ available for init. If there is a problem with 
> the partition though, this might not help, of course.
> 
> BTW, the notation "mount at boot = no" (which is the correct setting for
> crucial filesystems) is a bit confusing: "no" means that the fs already
> has to be mounted. 
> 
> 2. There's a chance that the whole /var fs got corrupted during the power
> outage :(
> 
> Steffen
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Ben Ricker
System Adminstrator
Wellinx.com