[SunHELP] Help please

[Steffen Grunewald]

> -----Original Message-----
> It seems that a power outage happenend and have corrupted the files
> /var/adm/utmpx and utmp.=20
> When the system came back after power came back we get the msgs:
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> INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
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> INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
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> INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
> =20
> 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 th=
e
> boot time when the=20
> system wants to write to /var/adm/utmp.  Without /var mounted at boot t=
ime,
> the /var/adm path=20
> 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 /.
> =20
> What it does is make the path /var/adm available at boot time without h=
aving
> /var mounted.

Double Ouch!

0. Please learn to quote.=20

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=20
the partition though, this might not help, of course.

BTW, the notation "mount at boot =3D no" (which is the correct setting fo=
r
crucial filesystems) is a bit confusing: "no" means that the fs already
has to be mounted.=20

2. There's a chance that the whole /var fs got corrupted during the power
outage :(

Steffen
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