SIA initialization failure

From: Daniel Bowman <dbowman_at_sph.jhu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:28:47 -0400

Hello,

While trying to boot to init level 3 I've recieved the following error.

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security configuration set to default (BASE).
/etc/sia/matrix.conf.675: Read-only file system
mv: rename /etc/sia/matrix.conf.675 to /etc/sia/matrix.conf: No such
file or directory
SIA initialization failure
*******************************************
   SIA INITIALIZATION ERROR
THIS REBOOT WILL RETURN TO SINGLE USER MODE
TO REPAIR THE SIA SECURITY CONFIGURATION
*******************************************
...
INIT:SINGLE USER MODE
#
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Calls to Digital support previously have not resolved the problem. The
temporary fix is to set / to rw and...
cp /etc/sia/.new..matrix.conf /etc/sia/bsd_matrix.conf

Then back up to init 3. But, the next time I reboot, I have to do this
over again. It's been a little while since I rebooted and I've
forgotten how to get the root "/" partition as rw. mount -u / results
in a memory fault. Help?

The system is DU-4.0b and the security level is indeed set to BASE.

-- Dan
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Daniel Bowman
UNIX Systems Programmer
IS, Johns Hopkins Univ. mailto:dbowman_at_sph.jhu.edu
Baltimore, MD - USA http://www.sph.jhu.edu/is/staff/

NT makes the easy stuff easy, and the rest impossible.
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Received on Wed Apr 23 1997 - 20:45:40 NZST

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