Could not chdir to home directory : I/O error

UNIX Solaris
1

When I login to Solaris 8 server I am getting the below error message

Could not chdir to home directory /users/test: I/O error

: ls /users/test
/users/test: I/O error
exitcode: 2

Previously I am able to login to server without any issue. Only now I am facing this error.

Regards,
Kalai

2

Could you pleaz post the "iostat -En" output...?

3 
$ iostat  -En
c0t6d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: TOSHIBA  Product: DVD-ROM SD-M1401 Revision: 1009 Serial No: 12/20/00 
Size: 18446744073.71GB <-1 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
c4t0d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 79 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: SUN      Product: StorEdge 3310    Revision: 0325 Serial No: 001BB22F4F21D300 
Size: 731.36GB <731360040960 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 14 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
c4t0d1          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 14 Transport Errors: 6 
Vendor: SUN      Product: StorEdge 3310    Revision: 0325 Serial No: 001BB26AA41C1200 
Size: 1074.01GB <1074008887808 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 14 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
c1t1d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336605FSUN36G  Revision: 0438 Serial No: 0212P1DE6P 
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
c1t3d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336605FSUN36G  Revision: 0438 Serial No: 0212P1CP5E 
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
c1t5d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336605FSUN36G  Revision: 0438 Serial No: 0212P1DH8X 
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
c1t4d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 2023 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336605FSUN36G  Revision: 0438 Serial No:            
Size: 18446744073.71GB <-512 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 2023 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
c1t0d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336605FSUN36G  Revision: 0638 Serial No: 0212P1CC0G 
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 
$
4

From which disk is "/users/test" created...?

Output of "df -h /users" pleaz...

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There's your error:

c1t4d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 2023 Transport Errors: 0 
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336605FSUN36G  Revision: 0438 Serial No:            
Size: 18446744073.71GB <-512 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 2023 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

2023 Hard errors, 2023 Device Not Ready errors, and a reported size that's impossible. I'd say that disk is going to hardware heaven.

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Hi pludi,

Is there any way to recover the error message.

Regards,
Kalai