shutdown and reboot with message

odiliko · 06-14-2012, 09:22 PM

Single user mode

My computer system was unplugged accidentally from the wall. The system shutdown. After it was rebooted several times, it continued to transition to single user mode. I tried to restore the original screen but it's hard. What command can I use to restore the original screen to be able to obtain my text files and directories?

This was the message on the screen at the time I reboot the computer with Solaris 10:

Jun 15 02: 17:50 svc.startd [7]: svc:/system/filesystem/root:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/fs-root" failed with exit status 1.
Jun 15 02:17:53 svc.startd [7]: system/filesystem/root:default:failed: transitioned to maintenace (see 'svcs -xv' for details)

Requesting System Maintenace Mode
(See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)

Console login service(s) cannot run

towheedm · 06-14-2012, 09:31 PM

You need to provide more info. What distro? Did it boot to a GUI previously or not? Which one? What are your partitions? When it goes to single user mode, does it ask for root password or does it drop to maintenance mode automatically? Did you try to run fsck on your partitions?

You can try:

Code:

fsck

This should check all of your partitions and repair any errors automatically.

em31amit · 06-14-2012, 09:33 PM

use

Code:

#init 3

or

Code:

#init 5

are you sure that it is single user mode not maintenance mode ? as you have mentioned that it bringing by default single while rebooting, so i suspect that must be maintenance mode not single user runlevel.

also you can edit grub "kernel" just put "3" or "5" at the end of line and boot the system

---------- Post added 06-15-12 at 08:03 AM ----------

if it is in maintenance mode than you must fsck you all filesystems.

jlliagre · 06-15-2012, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by odiliko

My computer system was unplugged accidentally from the wall. The system shutdown. After it was rebooted several times, it continued to transition to single user mode.

What Solaris version are you using ?

Code:

cat /etc/release

Any system message ?

Code:

dmesg|tail

If Solaris 10 or newer, what says

Code:

svcs -xv

?

Quote:

I tried to restore the original screen but it's hard. What command can I use to restore the original screen to be able to obtain my text files and directories?

What did you try ?