From: Thomas Glanzmann on
Hello,
we have a netbackup media server which doesn't boot anylonger after
showing the symptom of showing about 30 Gbyte as used space on disk
which can't be accounted for using du -sh (maybe files that were opened
by an application but deleted on disk). I didn't had a chance to inspect
the system beforehand.

{0} ok boot -v -m milestone=none


SPARC Enterprise T5220, No Keyboard
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.29.0.a, 16256 MB memory available, Serial #83928622.
Ethernet address 0:21:28:0:a6:2e, Host ID: 8500a62e.



Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@0,0 File and args: -v -m milestone=none
module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/sparcv9/unix: text at [0x1000000, 0x10b41c5] data at 0x1800000
module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/sparcv9/genunix: text at [0x10b41c8, 0x1276fb7] data at 0x189d180
module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/misc/sparcv9/platmod: text at [0x1276fb8, 0x1276fcf] data at 0x18f9558
module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-T2: text at [0x1276fe0, 0x127c6ff] data at 0x18f9cc0
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_141414-07 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
(Can't load specfs) Program terminated

Has anyone seen this or an idea what is going wrong here?

Thomas
From: Thomas Glanzmann on
Hello,

* Thomas Glanzmann <thomas(a)glanzmann.de>:
> {0} ok boot -v -m milestone=none

> SPARC Enterprise T5220, No Keyboard
> Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> OpenBoot 4.29.0.a, 16256 MB memory available, Serial #83928622.
> Ethernet address 0:21:28:0:a6:2e, Host ID: 8500a62e.

> Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@0,0 File and args: -v -m milestone=none
> module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/sparcv9/unix: text at [0x1000000, 0x10b41c5] data at 0x1800000
> module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/sparcv9/genunix: text at [0x10b41c8, 0x1276fb7] data at 0x189d180
> module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/misc/sparcv9/platmod: text at [0x1276fb8, 0x1276fcf] data at 0x18f9558
> module /platform/SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-T2: text at [0x1276fe0, 0x127c6ff] data at 0x18f9cc0
> SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_141414-07 64-bit
> Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> (Can't load specfs) Program terminated

problem was that a coworker booted the system with a full root
filesystem, so when writing the boot archive, it failed because an out
of disk spaced condition. We used the following commands to resolve the
issue:

boot -F failsafe
mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
bootadm update-archive -R /a
umount /a
reboot

See also: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/ghgnq?a=view

Thomas