Still here. Afeter some reboots, all my zones stopped working.
The service zones:default gets killed, and in the log I can read:
error while acquiring slave handle of zone console for zonename: no such device or address
don't know what it means
What does
df -h
show?
Does the file /etc/zones/index exist?
what does this show?
zoneadm list
I would expect it to find no zones at all. And report no error.
I had already checked that. Disk utilization is at about 1%, the file exists and the zones are shown... (not without extra parameters, since, as far as i remember, zoneadm show shows only running zones)
zoneadm does show all cofigured zones, zoneadm -i shows all zones.
Instead of me guessing, pick a downed zone. Tell me what if anything you have found.
If nothing seems out of whack, make a small change and commit it. If you get no errors then the xml file in /etc/zones for that zone is okay.
That leaves the index file, which you should restore from a backup if there is any doubt.
Note: that error usually results from file corruption, missing files, or possibly permissions: vis-a-vis the /etc/zones/ xml zonecfg files or the /etc/zones/index file. You can run with that if it helps. My experiences only. HTH
Thank you for the help. I can't check anymore, since I've deleted the BE.
You may be right, it might be corruption: I had a power outage and I haven't an ups