SUMMARY: System partially coming up.

From: Narendra Raavi <narendra_at_spiff.hr.att.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:45:22 -0400

Thanks to James Sainsbury and LHERCAUD_at_bouyguestelecom.fr
the problem was an extra " in the rc.config.

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 -- Narendra Ra[a]vi     Email : narendra_at_spiff.hr.att.com
    MT  A4-4B27       Phone : 732-420-7792
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:59:47PM -0400, Narendra Raavi wrote:
> 
> Managers,
> 
> We have -
> 
> Systems: 4 ES40s in a 3+1 ASE cluster running 4.0F PK#4. (enhanced Security
>          + NIS)
> Disks: Each server has 2 9.1GB disks (LSMd, so 4 disks in all) hosting the
>        root, usr, var and tmp file domains and associated filesets.
> 
>        A BA300 storage array has three other file domains pertaining to the
>        services provided by each primary server.
> 
> This system was running a service that moved flawlessly to the standby 
> machine when this system started to misbehave.
> 
> Why the service moved we are not sure, but the ase daemons stopped. The
> syslog.dated files and the messages file do not have much information.
> 
> After that the system automatically rebooted. We tried to look for vmzcore
> files and crash data but could not find any.
> 
> 1. We are able to see NFS disks being mounted, but we do not see nfs
>    daemons. 
> 2. We are able to login only if the .rhosts has appropriate entries.
> 3. ASE processes are not running.
> 
> 
> When we try to run the NFS service as /sbin/init.d/nfs start we get the
> error:
> 
>    /sbin/init.d/nfs[75]: syntax error at line 173 : `"' unmatched
> 
> We do not get this error on the other 3 systems. We get a similar error
> when trying to start the ASE processes.
> 
> We did not find the vmunix file to be corrupted as we compared it with the
> one that got generated in /sys/MACHINE/vmunix.
> 
> I would appreciate any hints/suggestions as to what could be wrong.
> 
> Thank you,

Received on Wed Apr 18 2001 - 12:45:28 NZST