FAILED daemon at startup

[Mark Pezzi]

I installed HP-UX 11.00 last month on a C160 with 128MB/4GB+2G.
At system startup I get two procedures that fail to complete (FAILED status)

1-tombstones

Copy processor logs to /var/tombstones
Output from "/sbin/rc1.d/S430pdcinfo start":
----------------------------
pdcinfo: pdc_system_info(return info) call failed, status = -2
pdcinfo: pdcinfo_main.c:911
ERROR: pdcinfo returned error status=255
"/sbin/rc1.d/S430pdcinfo start" FAILED


2-name server daemon

Copy processor logs to /var/tombstones
Output from "/sbin/rc1.d/S430pdcinfo start":
----------------------------
pdcinfo: pdc_system_info(return info) call failed, status = -2
pdcinfo: pdcinfo_main.c:911
ERROR: pdcinfo returned error status=255
"/sbin/rc1.d/S430pdcinfo start" FAILED


What can I do to correct these problems? Are they related?

I'm new so any help will get points and is much appreciated.

[melvyn burnard]

pdcinfo is a utility to aid in diagnosis of problems by pulling out your hardware piminfo at reboot time.
This is not supported on the system you have, and you should disable it by editing /etc/rc.config.d/pdcinfo and turning the variable from PDCINFO=1 to PDCINFO=0

and at the next reboot you should not get this error.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mark:

'pdcinfo' is part of the Online Diagnostics software. I'm not sure that it runs on other than series-800 machines.

You can disable it by changing PDCINFO=1 to PDCINFO=0 in /etc/rc.config.d/pdcinfo.

For the failure in sbin/rc2.d/S370named, check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log as the failure suggests.

...JRF...

[Mark Pezzi]

thanks Melvyn & James This fixed the first problem but I still have the name server daemon failed -->

Start name server daemon
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S370named start":
----------------------------
EXIT CODE: 1
Error in starting named. Recommend checking the
syslog file (usually /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log)
for possible reasons.
"/sbin/rc2.d/S370named start" FAILED

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi (again) Mark:

Follow the recommendation of the message and look in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for pertinent failures.

You appear to have NAMED=1 in /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs. This setting means that your server is operating as a DNS server. I suspect this is not what you intended. If not, change the variable setting to NAMED=0.

...JRF...