We have a handful of servers that exhibit the same behavior. Not everything starts up (according to rc.log). Here is an example:
(root@sapsnd)# tail /etc/rc.log Start LVM daemon Output from "/sbin/rc3.d/S900lvm start": ---------------------------- Starting up the lvmpud daemon /usr/sbin/lvmpud
Starting SAP Services Output from "/sbin/rc3.d/S900sapinit start": ---------------------------- start hostcontrol using profile /usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/host_profile
There are a few more things that should start but don't:
(root@sapsnd)# ls -al1 S9* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 21 Mar 18 2011 S900OVTrcSrv -> /sbin/init.d/OVTrcSrv lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 16 Mar 18 2011 S900lvm -> /sbin/init.d/lvm lrwxr-x--- 1 root root 20 Apr 22 2013 S900sapinit -> /sbin/init.d/sapinit lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 16 Mar 18 2011 S920sap -> /sbin/init.d/sap lr-xr--r-- 1 bin bin 23 Mar 18 2011 S990dtlogin.rc -> /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 18 Mar 18 2011 S998amgrd -> /sbin/init.d/amgrd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 21 Feb 10 2012 S99prngd.rc -> /sbin/init.d/prngd.rc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 19 Feb 17 10:34 S99z0OVCtrl -> /sbin/init.d/OVCtrl
This directory is unlike ANY other directory in HP-UX. EVERY file in this directory will be executed by every start script. That means that *NO* junk files or old files or different versions of files can be in that directory. Just before all the rc scripts are started, you may see all sorts of strange error messages due to bad files in that directory.
To debug, sort the files by time order, most recent at the bottom:
cd /etc/rc.config.d
ls -lrt
The files at the bottom were recently created or changed. They are the most suspect. If you want to keep old copies of the control files, make a directory called old and move all the old files to old. The directory protects these files from being executed.
Then for each failed rc script, run the failed script manually. I did not see any error messages in your post. Are you saying that the sapinit scipt is failing? What happens when you run it manually?
