Hello guys
This is my first post. I have very little experience and I woud appreciate your input on this problem.
I have a server running Solaris 10. In that server I have 2 zones that work perfectly fine, however, if I reboot the server, the zones don't boot and I have to do it manually. i checked the zone1.xml and zone2.xml files and they have autoboot="true".
After I manually boot the zones, I can login into them with no problems and I can ssh to them as well. Does anybody can give an idea?
Thanks in advance.
What says:
svcs -xv zones
?
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$ svcs -xv zones
svc:/system/zones:default (Zones autoboot and graceful shutdown)
State: online since Thu Sep 22 14:22:03 2011
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 5 zones
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M zonecfg
See: /var/svc/log/system-zones:default.log
Impact: None.
Looks fine. Can you run the same command after a reboot while the zones aren't started ?
You can also check /var/svc/log/system-zones:default.log logfile for error messages around the time of the reboot.
Please Paste the O/P of
df -h
from both the zones and
df -Zh
from the phyisical server also
zonecfg -z <zone name> info
from physical server.
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Also check under /etc/zones and make sure all the config files are present. You should see the index file along with the .xml files for each zone. Also, if the zones are in a separate file system make sure those file systems are mounted.
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Thanks guys for your help. All the needed files are in /etc/zones
Here are some of the results:
After rebooting:
$ svcs -xv zones
svc:/system/zones:default (Zones autoboot and graceful shutdown)
State: offline since Mon Sep 26 15:10:41 2011
Reason: Service svc:/milestone/multi-user:default is starting.
Path: svc:/system/zones:default
svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
Reason: Service svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default is disabled.
Path: svc:/system/zones:default
svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
svc:/application/management/dmi:default
svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default
Reason: Service svc:/network/rpc/bind:default is disabled.
Path: svc:/system/zones:default
svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
svc:/application/management/dmi:default
svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 5 zones
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M zonecfg
Impact: This service is not running.
Now, after booting the zones manually:
From zone1
$ df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/ 124G 99G 23G 81% /
/dev 124G 99G 23G 81% /dev
/lib 124G 99G 23G 81% /lib
/opt/bea 124G 99G 23G 81% /opt/bea
/opt/csw 124G 99G 23G 81% /opt/csw
/platform 124G 99G 23G 81% /platform
/sbin 124G 99G 23G 81% /sbin
/usr 124G 99G 23G 81% /usr
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
swap 23G 264K 23G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 23G 8K 23G 1% /tmp
swap 23G 24K 23G 1% /var/run
From zone2
$ df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/ 124G 99G 23G 81% /
/dev 124G 99G 23G 81% /dev
/lib 124G 99G 23G 81% /lib
/opt/bea 124G 99G 23G 81% /opt/bea
/opt/csw 124G 99G 23G 81% /opt/csw
/platform 124G 99G 23G 81% /platform
/sbin 124G 99G 23G 81% /sbin
/usr 124G 99G 23G 81% /usr
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
swap 23G 264K 23G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 23G 8K 23G 1% /tmp
swap 23G 24K 23G 1% /var/run
From the global zone:
$ df -Zh
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 124G 99G 23G 81% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 23G 1.3M 23G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 23G 16K 23G 1% /tmp
swap 23G 48K 23G 1% /var/run
/zones/zone1/dev 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/dev
/lib 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/lib
/opt/bea 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/opt/bea
/opt/csw 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/opt/csw
/platform 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/platform
/sbin 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/sbin
/usr 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/usr
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone1/root/proc
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone1/root/system/contract
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone1/root/etc/mnttab
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone1/root/system/object
swap 23G 264K 23G 1% /zones/zone1/root/etc/svc/volatile
/zones/zone1/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/zones/zone1/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone1/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone1/root/dev/fd
swap 23G 8K 23G 1% /zones/zone1/root/tmp
swap 23G 24K 23G 1% /zones/zone1/root/var/run
/zones/zone2/dev 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/dev
/lib 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/lib
/opt/bea 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/opt/bea
/opt/csw 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/opt/csw
/platform 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/platform
/sbin 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/sbin
/usr 124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/usr
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone2/root/proc
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone2/root/system/contract
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone2/root/etc/mnttab
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone2/root/system/object
swap 23G 264K 23G 1% /zones/zone2/root/etc/svc/volatile
/zones/zone2/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/zones/zone2/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap2.so.1
124G 99G 23G 81% /zones/zone2/root/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /zones/zone2/root/dev/fd
swap 23G 8K 23G 1% /zones/zone2/root/tmp
swap 23G 24K 23G 1% /zones/zone2/root/var/run
Hi,
within the /etc/zones/[zonename].xml ensure you have :-
autoboot="true" in the line that has the zonename / zonepath / pool configurations.
If not, then :-
zonecfg -z [zonename]
set autoboot=true
commit
exit.
Then retry.
SBK
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Hello sbk1972
I have the autoboot="true". That's why I can't understand why they don't boot.
Thank you for your help guys, still trying to solve this...
What output do you get if you type just "svcs -xv" from the global zone?
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You are experiencing this problem after a reboot before that everything was fine, is there any reason for the reboot I mean any changes were made to the system before the reboot??
Also when you reboot the server, can you check the /var/svc/log/system-zones:default.log file before booting the zones manually, where is it getting stuck.
Regards,
Vishal
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I want to thank you all for your help. Unfortunately, this server was totally reconfigured and I will never know what was causing the problem.