Solaris checks FS that's not there

2007-12-25 9:35:00

Thanks to:

 lorenzd@gcm.com,

 A.Chan@CdnAir.CA,

 michael@hawaii.adb.com

Someone had changed vfstab so that /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s4 had /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6

is it's raw device. My ypbind error was un-related. This machine had a

specific server defined in ypservers. This server was dead. I removed the

ypserver file and was able to boot using a different server.

At 09:29 AM 2/26/96 -0800, you wrote:

>Howdy,

> I have two problems that I think are un-related. Friday night I noticed I

>could not rlogin to one of our new machines (Sparc 5 w/Solaris 2.5). Typing

>

>#rlogin joebob

>

>would just hang from any machine. This morning I tried to Reboot joebob, it

>was not hung. Upon booting, I got the messages:

>(please excuse any typos)

>

>Checking ufs filesystems

>/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6: No such device or address

>Can't open /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6

>/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6: CAN'T CHECK FILESYSTEM

>/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

>Can't open /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6

>/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6: CAN'T CHECK FILESYSTEM

>/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

>Warning - Unable to repair one or more of the following filesystem(s):

> /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s7 /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6

>

>I'm not using /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6. I have an external 4Gb disk using two

>partitions /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s3 & /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s4. I check these manually

>and they are fine. I'm not sure why it's checking /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6. I

>checked vfstab and it's not listed in there.

>Is there someplace else I should look for it? Also just for kicks I tried

>boot -r, this didn't help.

>

>I tried ^D to continue. After resuming mountall several things loaded

>normally. Automounter wouldn't load because it couldn't find ypbind.

>Then I began getting this error from ypbind:

>

>NIS sever not responding for domain "Remedy.COM"; still trying

>

>this is repeated for ever. All of the other computers in the lab are

>working. I tried switching hub ports, this didn't help. I think these are

>unrelated problems, any ideas on either of them?

>

>Thanks

>Jay

>

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>| Jay C. Everson - Remedy Corp. | "If you're not living on the |

>| Engineering Systems Administrator | edge, you're taking up too much |

>| E-Mail:jaye@remedy.com | space." |

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>

>

>

Jay

*===================================*=================================*

| Jay C. Everson - Remedy Corp. | "If you're not living on the |

| Engineering Systems Administrator | edge, you're taking up too much |

| E-Mail:jaye@remedy.com | space." |

| jaye@aimnet.com - Personal | GO RAIDERS |

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