HP-UX startup fails

[Michael Selvesteen_2]

Folks,

Our 11.23 IPF box is failing to boot after it was focred to shutdown due to power failure. I see the following error in console

HP-UX Start-up in progress
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Configure system crash dumps ........................................ OK
Mount file systems .................................................. OK
Update kernel and loadable modules .................................. OK
Initialize loadable modules ......................................... OK
Setting hostname .................................................... OK
Start Kernel Logging facility ....................................... OK
Set privilege group ................................................. N/A
Display date ........................................................ N/A
Save system crash dump if needed .................................... N/A
Start evp ........................................................... OK
Enable auxiliary swap space ......................................... OK
Start syncer daemon ................................................. OK
Start Utmp Daemon : manages User Accounting Database ................ OK
Start Wtmp Daemon to manage wtmp dnd btmp Databases ................. N/A
Configure Loopback interfaces (lo0) .................................


When I interupt the above process I can able to login through console but not able to perform any network operations even my ifconfig results as

ifconfig: socket: Operation not supported..

Please help to avoid this problem.

[Suraj Singh_1]

Look at http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=870504

Similar thread.

Regards

[Kevin O'Donovan]

Hi,

the steps where the network cards is configured has not been run when you interrupt it at that stage. Scripts in /sbin/init.d/ (linked to from rc1/2/3.d directories) such as hpbtlan, etc.

Try running those scripts and see if it works better. Also there's the /sbin/init.d/net script.

Check what runlevel you're at (who -r), the networking is only started at run level 2 I think. If you're not at run level 3 run "init 3" to get there.

Hope that helps,
Kevin.

[Michael Selvesteen_2]

Thank you all for your comments.

I had already tried all your methods but invain...Any other methods to try...

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi Michael,

I have already similar problem.
Mainly it is a network problem. In my case the server have two cards and the wrong one was enabled. Try to see the phisical network connection, cable, switch etc..
Try with switching the cable to other network interface or
set_parms script to reconfigure the IP to enabled network card.
Final solution maybe restarting with Ignite and making configuration of the network interface.

Regards,
Borislav

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Michael,

Check this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=591213

Why do yoi interrupt the "Configure Loopback interfaces (lo0)" process??

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Michael Selvesteen_2]

Hi Eric,

Yes, I bypass "Configure Loopback interfaces" because it hangs forever. Any other hints to resolve this problem.

[Ermin Borovac]

Can you please try running /sbin/init.d/net.init script manually to see where it hangs?

# sh -x /sbin/init.d/net.init start

[Stephen Keane]

# autopush -f /etc/stcp.conf

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Michael,

Are you able to start in single user mode? If the answer is yes, check for any more info in /etc/rc.log and /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log?

Are you able to run the sbin/init.d/net.init script in single user mode?? If you're not, check this: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=870504

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Muthukumar_5]

Mike ;). Hope things are good.

Please reboot machine and login into with single user mode. Once getting reached into prompt by bypassing problem, start network script in /sbin/init.d/ location.


There may be a problem in netconf and startup scripts.

kit.