Crash while booting

[baanman]

Hi,

Last saturday we needed to shutdown our server
and when we restarted the server it crashed with the 'mounting /var' dsiplay on the led.


I restarted the server again and this time ip started succesfully. There was no message in error log . I checked the bootlog and it seems like the savebase command caused to stop booting .

The alog -o -t bootlog output is like below. What do you think the reason of this situation

Thanks


rc.boot: starting disk boot process
rc.boot: executing "restbase"
rc.boot: executing "cfgmgr -f -v"
rc.boot: boot device is hdisk0
rc.boot: executing "ipl_varyon -v"
rc.boot: executing "fsck -fp /dev/hd4"
rc.boot: executing "mount /dev/hd4 /"
rc.boot: executing "fsck -fp /usr"
rc.boot: executing "mount /usr"
The "date" command is now available: Sat Dec 20 14:28:51 UTC 2003
rc.boot: executing "fsck -fp var"
rc.boot: executing "mount /var"
rc.boot: executing "copycore"
rc.boot: executing savebase recovery procedures
savebase recovery reboot

 

[PSD]

This is the section of the rc.boot script that was run during bootup:

# Error Recovery if customized data is zero
[ -f /no_sbase ] && {
echo "rc.boot: executing savebase recovery procedures" >>/tmp/boot_log
X=`ODMDIR=/mnt/etc/objrepos odmshow CuDv | fgrep population`
count=`echo $X | cut -f2 -d' '`
[ $count -ne 0 ] && {
/usr/sbin/savebase -o /mnt/etc/objrepos
[ $? -ne 0 ] && loopled 0x546
mount /var # so that reboot can log
echo "savebase recovery reboot" >>/tmp/boot_log
cat /tmp/boot_log | alog -q -t boot
reboot

As you can see the savebase error was not the cause of the reboot but the system erroring and entering this loop. /var was mounted in order to write this information into the bootlog.

PSD
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX V4.3 Systems Support
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