[Sunhelp] failed write of utmpx entry:" "

[Kalusniak, Jeff]

That's a possibility too.  It's listed also in the "Common Error Mesages" as
I described below.

-----Original Message-----
From: steve price [mailto:sdp6513050 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 8:16 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] failed write of utmpx entry:" "


there's a bug notice on this on sunsolve - basically
it says that you have to go into single user mode and
delete the two files....

--- "Kalusniak, Jeff" <jkalusniak at goliathfalls.com>
wrote:
> Is it possible that the /var filesystem is mounted
> read-only?  In the past,
> I've seen this to be the case after an unexpected
> reboot, etc.  
> 
> This console message usually indicates that init
> cannot write to /var. And
> it's generally because the fs is mounted read-only.
> This happens if there is
> a brief power outage, etc and the system believes
> filesystems are mounted,
> when in fact they are not. You can remount the
> filesystem with something
> like:
> 
> # mount -o rw,remount /
> then hit CTRL-D
> 
> If that fails, try fsck on the filesystem.  
> 
> Hope that helps, 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hbuford at cnnsimail.com
> [mailto:hbuford at cnnsimail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 6:06 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] failed write of utmpx entry:" "
> 
> 
> Has anyone ever seen this error before?
> I'm getting this error after applying the
> recommended patches from SunSolve
> to an x86 machine.  It also says "Cannot create
> /var/adm/utmp or
> /var/adm/utmpx"  is there anything I can do about
> this?
> 
> 
> Henry
> 
>
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