[SunHELP] Help please

Simon Annear sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue May 29 22:13:48 CDT 2001


Hi Ben

Check the time on your machine=2C your messages appear to be dated 2000
instead of 2001=2C my guess is that this could have something to do with
it=2E=2E

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From=3A Kevin Stevens =3CKevin=5FStevens=40mailhost=2Eshark=2Etiburon=2Ec=
a=2Eus=3E
Date=3A Wednesday=2C May 30=2C 2001 2=3A21 pm
Subject=3A Re=3A =5BSunHELP=5D Help please

=3E Not here=2E  Check the message ID=2E  If it=27s the same=2C it=27s pr=
obably =

=3E at the end
=3E of your MTA=2E  If it=27s different=2C the source is probably spewing=
 =

=3E multiplemessages=2E
=3E =

=3E KeS
=3E =

=3E ----- Original Message -----
=3E From=3A =22Ben Ricker=22 =3Cbricker=40wellinx=2Ecom=3E
=3E To=3A =3Csunhelp=40sunhelp=2Eorg=3E
=3E Sent=3A Monday=2C May 29=2C 2000 12=3A12
=3E Subject=3A Re=3A =5BSunHELP=5D Help please
=3E =

=3E =

=3E =3E I have received about 25 of the exact same message from the exact=
 =

=3E same=3E sender this whole past weekend=3A is anyone else having this =

=3E problem=3F=3E
=3E =3E Ben Ricker
=3E =3E
=3E =3E On Fri=2C 25 May 2001 17=3A03=3A23 +0200 Steffen Grunewald wrote=3A=

=3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E =3E -----Original Message-----
=3E =3E =3E =3E It seems that a power outage happenend and have corrupted=
 the =

=3E files=3E =3E =3E /va=3E =3E =3E When the system came back after power=
 came back =

=3E we get the msgs=3A
=3E =3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E =3E INIT=3A Cannot create /va=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E =3E INIT=3A failed write of utmpx entry=3A=22   =22
=3E =3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E =3E INIT=3A failed write of utmpx entry=3A=22   =22
=3E =3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E =3E INIT=3A Single User Mode
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E On Fri 2001-05-25 (08=3A17)=2C Lund=2C Dennis wrote=3A
=3E =3E =3E =3E At my last job this error was caused because /var was not=
 =

=3E mounted at the
=3E =3E =3E =3E boot time when the
=3E =3E =3E =3E system wants to write to /va=3E =3E boot time=2C
=3E =3E =3E =3E the /va=3E =3E =3E does not exist=2E  What we did to avoi=
d this =

=3E message was to unmount
=3E =3E =3E /var and
=3E =3E =3E =3E create the
=3E =3E =3E =3E path /va=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E =3E What it does is make the path /va=3E =3E without having
=3E =3E =3E =3E /var mounted=2E
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E Double Ouch!
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E 0=2E Please learn to quote=2E
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E 1=2E There is an entry =22mount at boot=22 in /etc/vfstab whi=
ch =

=3E should make
=3E =3E =3E sure that /var =5Fis=5F available for init=2E If there is a p=
roblem with
=3E =3E =3E the partition though=2C this might not help=2C of course=2E
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E BTW=2C the notation =22mount at boot =3D no=22 (which is the =
correct =

=3E setting for
=3E =3E =3E crucial filesystems) is a bit confusing=3A =22no=22 means tha=
t the fs =

=3E already=3E =3E has to be mounted=2E
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E 2=2E There=27s a chance that the whole /var fs got corrupted =
during =

=3E the power
=3E =3E =3E outage =3A(
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E Steffen
=3E =3E =3E --
=3E =3E =3E  Steffen Grunewald =7C GFZ =7C PB 2=2E2 =7C Telegrafenberg E3=
 =7C D-14473 =

=3E Potsdam=3E =3E  =BB email=3A steffen(at)gfz-potsdam=2Ede =7C fax/fon=3A=
 +49-331-
=3E 288-1266/-1245 =AB
=3E =3E =3E   I have nothing to declare but my genius              --- =

=3E Oscar Wilde
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=3E =3E --------
=3E =3E
=3E =3E Ben Ricker
=3E =3E System Adminstrator
=3E =3E Wellinx=2Ecom
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