[SunHELP] Help please

Afrose Abdulla sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sun May 27 00:34:59 CDT 2001


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Maybe your /etc/vfstab is corrupt or incorrect due to some reason. Check
syntax of file also.
/af

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

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Maybe your /etc/vfstab is corrupt or incorrect due to some reason. Check
syntax of file also.
<br>/af
<p>Li Huawei wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style>
<font size=-1>Hi Admins,</font> <font size=-1>It
seems that a power outage happenend and have corrupted the files /var/adm/utmpx
and utmp.</font><font size=-1>When the system came back after power came
back we get the msgs:</font><font size=-1>INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp
or /var/adm/utmpx</font>
<p><font size=-1>INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "</font> 
<br><font size=-1>INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "</font>
<p><font size=-1>INIT: Single User Mode</font> <font size=-1>...</font> <font size=-1>We
couldn't enter single user mode.</font><font size=-1>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.</font> <font size=-1>Any
ideas... Help please.</font> <font size=-1>Thanks,</font> <font size=-1>Huawei
Li</font> </blockquote>

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