[SunHELP] Help please

[Nicholas Dronen]

Is /var/ a separate filesystem?  If so, there's probably
not a /var/adm in the root filesystem, and the /var filesystem
is not mounted when you get these errors.   In short, if
/var is a separate filesystem, I think you can safely ignore
the mesages.

Regards,

Nicholas

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 09:34:59AM +0400, Afrose Abdulla wrote:
> Maybe your /etc/vfstab is corrupt or incorrect due to some reason. Check
> syntax of file also.
> /af
> 
> Li Huawei wrote:
> 
> > Hi Admins, It seems that a power outage happenend and have corrupted
> > the files /var/adm/utmpx and utmp.When the system came back after
> > power came back we get the msgs:INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or
> > /var/adm/utmpx
> >
> > INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
> > INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
> >
> > INIT: Single User Mode ... We couldn't enter single user mode.So we
> > booted from cdrom, renamed the files utmp and utmpx to utmp and
> > utmpx.old,and rebooted the system but got the same err msgs again. Any
> > ideas... Help please. Thanks, Huawei Li