topic Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot in Operating System - HP-UX

hp9000 Does Not Boot

Serge Uranie — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:06:09 GMT

The HP9000 which is our application server is down.
Please find below a resume of the situation

we had to change our ip address,so we modified
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf & /etc/hosts
On shutdown -r, system halted & on rebooting the
machine , we had the followingmessages
'/sbin/rc1.d/K258diagnostic[22]
'/sbin/rc[64] route not found
'/sbin/rc[64] ping not found ...
These messages continuedscrolling down.
We had to switch off the power and on restarting
we had the same repetitive messages
We have now rebooted in single user mode.

Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:24:19 GMT

Hi,

I believe one of your rc.config.d scripts is having syntax errors. To determine the file do.

#cd /etc/rc.config.d
#for i in $(ls)
>do
>echo $i
>. ./$i
>done

It will print each file name. Each file should be simply run without giving any error. The file that gave the errors should be fixed. Mostly it would be your netconf file. Don't put any backup copies under that directory as they will be sourced in when /sbin/init.d scripts are run.

-Sri

Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot

malay boy — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:19:29 GMT

Sergie,
It seem that it cannot set the route.Please check whether the static route in netconf still valid or not.

my 2 cents

regards
mB

Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot

Shaikh Imran — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:54:02 GMT

Hi,
What i feel is that there was some mistake giving the route in the netconf file.
Please restart the server in single user mode
using hpux -is at the isl prompt.
Just try commenting the modification you did earlier and try to go into multiuser with init 2 followed by init3
If everything works fine do a proper shutdown and restart the server.
You can also use the rc.config.d/netconf file of the other server if available for comparison.

Regards,

Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot

Mohanasundaram_1 — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:00:33 GMT

Hi,

I presume you added some line it netconf file like

route add ........
ping ........

If so, please remove them and use the Variables in netconf file to define your route (gateway). you need to perform the activities in single user mode.

run
# sh -x /etc/rc.config
this will stop at a place where you have a non-ascii file or a "zero" byte file. but for your problem you need to trace back to your changes.

Cheers,
Mohan.

Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot

doug hosking — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:18:38 GMT

In the future, you might find it helpful to use the set_parms command when making this type of change. This provides some protection against invalid entries when changing various configuration parameters, and does a more complete job of finding/fixing all the places that need to change.

/sbin/set_parms ip_address
/sbin/set_parms addl_netwrk

Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot

Bharat Katkar — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:33:23 GMT

Hi,
Doug suggested it rightly and even you can get rid of all this if you do this thr' SAM's user friendly menus. It makes it easier for you and does all required changes in associated files.

Regards,

Re: hp9000 Does Not Boot

Cheryl Griffin — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:40:55 GMT

Make sure that you do not have any backup, saved, even misplaced files in /etc/rc.config.d.

No matter if you have a file called .bak or .orig or .sav it will be sourced if it is located in this directory.

Most common issue I've seen with these symptoms is that there is a misplaced file in /etc/rc.config.d that contains a list of system files (for instance files that have been backed up). Move that misplaced file to another directory and no more errors.