Hello, apparently my solaris 10 server had a abnormal shutdown last night. I cannot login as a normal user usernameassword or as rootassword. I can login as root but i do not get prompted for my password. When logged in as root this is not the configuration I had before the power failure. Please I'm a solaris newbie can someone please direct me on how to recover my original configuration?


Thank You,

Raidmax

Hi.

You are probably at a maintenance/fsck login after the FSes were found to need some attention during boot.

Reboot the box.

Dave

thanks for the reply dave, dave that is the first thing i did...still having same issue. Login hangs then goes to Action Required DT message box "The DT messaging system could not be started. To correct the problem, select the Failsafe session and log in. Check that the hostname is correct in these locations:
/etc/src.sh
/etc/hosts
/usr/adm/inetd.sec"
Question, on the solaris 'select a server to log into:
Server Name
sun01 1 user, load: 0.1,0.1,0.1
unknown 0 user, load: 0.1,0.1,0.1

sun01 is what I need to log into but cannot only unknown at the moment. I'm a confused newbie. Suggestions?

Doesn't sound too healthy. I'm not much of an expert with Solaris graphical systems, though.

Is the /etc/hosts file OK? Does it look sane?

Dave

??
/etc/src.sh and /usr/adm/inetd.sec are not part of Solaris.

Can you log in failsafe session mode ?

jilliagre I've tried logging in without success in failsafe mode?
terminal window just locksup black prompt box does not blink
Cannot enter commands. What should I do next?

Thanks for the responses everyone


Raidmax

It may be a hardware problem.

Try to reinstalling on another hard disk.

dave checked /etc/hosts its wrong I can change it easly. But here is my confusion as a solaris newbie. Every file I access now is read-only. These files were fine be for the abend two day ago. Can you please explain to me why I cannot login as before? usernameassword and root:root? Only login is root no prompt for password

Raidmax

ok heres the kicker my customer got this box off of ebay. There is absolutely no support from sun AND there are no media disks. Am i hosed or what? Can I find an iso maybe?

Remount the file-system read write and fix the /etc/hosts file:

Sorry, I've no idea about what you are looking for. Can you elaborate ?

thank you jilliagre i will run those commands tues morning hopefully with success. please discard my post # 9

jilliagre when i run # mount -o remount,rw / nothing happens

You mean / is still read-only after the command ?

# cd /
# ls -l


drwxr-xr-x 3 root nobody 512 Aug 16 18:30 cdrom
-rw------- 1 root root 4155359 Aug 28 15:01 core
drwxr-xr-x 18 root sys 4096 Sep 4 10:36 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Sep 4 10:35 devices
drwxr-xr-x 79 root sys 4096 Sep 4 10:36 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Jun 4 17:11 export
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 512 Aug 11 15:55 genesis
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Sep 4 10:36 home
drwxr-xr-x 14 root sys 512 Jun 4 18:40 kernel
drwxr-xr-x 7 root bin 5120 Jun 4 18:31 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Jun 4 17:10 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Jun 4 17:11 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Sep 4 10:36 net
drwxr-xr-x 7 root sys 512 Aug 29 11:43 opt
drwxr-xr-x 38 root sys 1536 Jun 4 17:54 platform
dr-xr-xr-x 69 root root 128448 Sep 4 10:39 proc
drwx------ 2 root root 512 Aug 29 13:37 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Jun 4 17:55 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 512 Jun 4 17:11 system
drwxrwxrwt 6 root sys 864 Sep 4 10:37 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 39 root sys 1024 Jun 4 19:26 usr
drwxr-xr-x 45 root sys 1024 Aug 29 11:44 var
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 512 Sep 4 10:36 vol