Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> writes:

>I've done some work on a newish (few days) install of Solaris 10 on a
>Sun - I think it is a V120, but its not here.

>Following the attahement of a tape and th reboot, the system gasve these
>errors:

>svc:/system/filesystem/local:default: WARNING: /sbin/mountall -l failed:
>exit status 1
>Oct 29 00:19:51 svc.startd[7]: svc:/system/filesystem/local:default:
>Method "/lib/svc/method/fs-local" failed with exit status 95.
>[ system/filesystem/local:default failed fatally (see 'svcs -x' for
>details) ]

>subsequent removing of the tape drive did not help, so I suspect the
>problem was unrelated.

>Most (if not all) of the file systems are monting, but montall fails. I
> was unable to ssh to the local host, the web server does not run and
>it seems impossible to do much. I don't have console access and trying
>to explain what to do to a friend was next to impossible, so eventually
>he resinstalled the OS. The system is now up OK.

>Anyone know what those errors indicate?


Check the log file in /var/svc/log

Casper
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