[SunHELP] Problem booting 2.7 after patching

Helmi Nur Alamin sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 7 09:35:22 CST 2001


It seems that your machine was not properly shut down, so there are
incorrect labels in the filesystem that can not be corrected during boot.

Try to boot from cdrom, and fsck your system disk partition from there.
I've done this many times, and it always works for me.

#!/helmi

Adam Skaffloth wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I applied the Patches for JDK 1.3.1 and installed JDK 1.3.1 on Solaris 7
> box.
> After rebooting the system it won't start and are giving the messages:
>
> INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
>
> INIT: Failed write the utmpx entry:"  "
>
> INIT: Failed write the utmpx entry:"  "
>
> INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
>
> ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S):
>
> And it does not matter what I write it will just return the same messages
> over and over.
>
> Anybody got a clue what happened ???
> How can I get past this or do I need to scratch this box and start over ?
>
> / Adam
>
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