UNIX errors

[EchoSpark]

Hello, I am a newbie, i have a voice server running on UNIX, it restarted and i got the following message

INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE

What do i do?

 

[PHV]

When in single user mode you may purge the corrupted files:
rm /var/adm/[uw]tmp*

Hope This Helps, PH.
Want to get great answers to your Tek-Tips questions? Have a look at FAQ219-2884 or FAQ181-2886

 

[p5wizard]

Also you may want to make sure /var/adm exists, perhaps you need to fsck one or more filesystems.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[EchoSpark]

Please explain into detail how to purge corrupt files and to do fsck.
I am a newbie.

Thanks.

 

[p5wizard]

purge the u/wtmp file: see PHV's post: type exactly as follows:
rm /var/adm/[uw]tmp*

fsck: run the command fsck
fsck
fsck /var

first one checks all filesystems, second one only /var filesystem.

If everything checks out, perhaps the system does not auto-mount all filesystems? You can manually mount now with
mount all
but it is kind of UNIX-flavour dependent on how to make all filesystems auto-mount on startup.

What UNIX-flavour is installed on the box?

If you are unfamiliar with this system, perhaps you need to get in touch with the people you bought it from?


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Annihilannic]

This looks like a common error on Solaris when /var is on a separate filesystem. It tries to update /var/adm/w & utmp with the shutdown time *after* it has been unmounted. If you don't like seeing these (harmless) errors, while in single-user mode, unmount /var and mkdir -p /var/adm ; touch /var/admp/utmp /var/adm/wtmp. Then remount /var.

Annihilannic.