ORIGINAL QUESTION:
>I get the following messages when I shut down the workstation to level 0:
>
>INIT: failed write utmpx entry: "s0"
>
>INIT: failed write utmpx entry: "fw"
>
>Does someone know what it means, because I have no idea?
>Should I worry about it? The machine restarts no problema after this.
The answer is included in SunSolve, SRDB ID: 12885, BUG REPORT ID: 1185668.
The explanantion and workaround is included below. In brief, I can ignore
this messages, or create a couple of links to avoid them.
Regards
Mariel
SRDB ID: 12885
SYNOPSIS: error messages from INIT on shutdown
DETAIL DESCRIPTION:
When shutting down the system, the following messages appear:
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry: "s0"
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry: "fw"
and /var is a mounted partition.
SOLUTION SUMMARY:
Init is trying to record the changes to the run-level into the
/var/adm/utmpx file. Unfortunately, by this time in the shutdown, all
the filesystems have been unmounted, including /var.
The message can be safely ignored.
However, if you would like to eliminate the messages, do the
following:
1) Boot to single user, and give the password to enter a single-user
shell:
ok boot -s
Rebooting with ...
...
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
Type Ctrl-d to proceed with normal startup,
(or give root password for system maintenance): <type root password>
2) Execute the following commands:
# umount /var
# mkdir /var/adm
# ln -s /dev/null /var/adm/utmpx
# ln -s /dev/null /var/adm/utmp
This creates the utmpx file on the root partition so
that "init" can write the entry. Because this entry is useless, we
made a link to /dev/null so that this write gets thrown away.
BUG REPORT ID: 1185668
PRODUCT AREA: System Administration
PRODUCT: shutdown
SUNOS RELEASE: Solaris 2.5
HARDWARE: any
*******************************************
Mariel Feder - IT Consultant
Meralco Electric Company - MTP - IT.
Phone: (63)(2) 637.8897
Fax: (63)(2) 637.8868
E-mail: mfeder@meralco.com.ph
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