[SunHELP] Help please

Fri May 25 01:42:54 CDT 2001

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Li Huawei wrote:

> Hi Admins, 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 ... We couldn't enter single user mode.So we
> booted from cdrom, renamed the files utmp and utmpx to utmp and
> utmpx.old,and rebooted the system but got the same err msgs again. Any
> ideas... Help please. Thanks, Huawei Li

Hi
Why You cannot enter into single user mode?.
  are all directories ( /var /etc /usr etc ) in same partition or not?

Gayantha

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Li Huawei wrote:
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Hi Admins, 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 ... We
couldn't enter single user mode.So we booted from
cdrom, renamed the files utmp and utmpx to utmp and utmpx.old,and rebooted
the system but got the same err msgs again. Any
ideas... Help please. Thanks, Huawei
Li </blockquote>
Hi
 Why You cannot enter into single user mode?.
   are all directories ( /var /etc /usr etc ) in same partition
or not?
Gayantha
  
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