Suspected Spam: Re: [SunHELP] Could not bring up system due to utmpx problem

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I could not use STOP-A to bring system to ok prompt as I telnet to it
via terminal server (CMS16).  What keys is equivalent to STOP-A if I use
VT100.

Thanks,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On Behalf Of Bret Adams
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:18 AM
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Suspected Spam: Re: [SunHELP] Could not bring up system due to
utmpx problem

David:

I am going to assume this is a Sparc system.  When you are starting up
and
after the hardware banner, when it is running its RAM check hit
STOP-A on the keyboard at the same time.  You must do this before it is
booting into the operating and you will get the ok prompt.

As one of the other guys said you must boot off of the cdrom into single

user mode to fsck you main partition.  Even booting into single user
mode
without the CDROM will not let you mount a bad root partition.

Bret

At 12:54 PM 9/22/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I am running solaris8, I just reboot my system after changing IP
address
>and the system could not come up as it complains it could not write to
>the file /var/adm/utmpx as shown below.  I entered into system
>maintenance mode to attempt fixing utmpx file using VI to edit the file
>but it does not let me save it, it told me the file is read only.
>Please help me to fix the problem as it is critical.
>
>Thanks,
>David
>
>
>Boot device: disk  File and args:
>SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-14 64-bit
>Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>configuring IPv4 interfaces: hme0.
>
>INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmpx
>
>INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"  "
>
>INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"  "
>
>INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
>
>Type control-d to proceed with normal startup,
>(or give root password for system maintenance):
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