SUMMARY: Solaris checks FS that's not there

From: Jay C. Everson (jaye@remedy.com)
Date: Tue Feb 27 1996 - 13:12:07 CST


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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