Hi all,
As ever the list is both fast and gives positive results.
Dr. Thomas Blinn was very, very quick with a reply which included an extract
from the archives. Unfortunately, the answer wasn't in the extract.
Tony McElhill, Thierry Faidherbe and Narendra Raavi suggested corruption of
either /var, /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/wtmp, or that /var had not been
mounted whilst we carried out the installation. I have checked the console
log and the only time /var was not mounted was when we tried to delete a
subset.
The prize in fact goes to Alan Davis, who explained why the problem occurs:
"This is a problem because the boot process looks for files in /var and if
they are there starts using it before mounting local filesystems. When
bcheckrc mounts /var the OS loses the files that it had in the /var on
root."
Booting single-user and emptying /var before mounting all the disks was
enough to get the system up.
Thanks again
Michael
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Received on Fri Nov 30 2001 - 10:47:46 NZDT