Server hangs at "Starting Syncer Daemon"

[Bejoy C Alias]

We have one D230 server ( HP-UX 10.20 )which hangs at the time of booting .
It hangs at 'Starting Syncer Daemon' and it is just showing wait/busy .
We kept the server for half an hour in that state but it didnt boot.
After manually recycling the power 2,3 times it starts .
This pblm happens once or twice in a week .
Any pblms with the hard disk ??

[Muthukumar_5]

Syncer may be trying to check file system integrity. May be a problem with file system.

Try to check file system health with syncer after getting prompt manually. Hard reboot (recycling power) will make problem with file system surely.

hth.

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Bejoy,

Also scan the disks (ioscan -fnCdisk) and search in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for possible warnings...

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[AwadheshPandey]

boot the m/c in single user mode, run fsck, and mount the file systems, check ioscan -fnCdisk, and check the disks for curruption,
dd if=/dev/dsk/cxtxdx of=/dev/dsk/cxtxdx bs=1024k

Awadhesh

[Bejoy C Alias]

Hi All,
The pblm was with one of the hdds, after replacing it the server started working fine.
Thanks to all ....