* Harry Fu <harry.fu at sun.com> [2008-08-20 05:59]:
> Recently I keep encountering a same problem that my solaris became
> unusable by unknown reason. It seems that datalink-management and
> rpc-bind services stopped randomly and can not be started again. Hence
> I can not boot to multi-user milestone. I have no idea about how to
> get this fixed or how to find out the root cause. Attached are the
> error messages and logs I got but it doesn't give much useful
> information to me.
From your attachment, I would investigate two things:
1. What are the permissions on /lib/libavl.so.1? Is it a valid ELF
file? (That is, why can't the linker read it?)
On a recent system,
$ ls -l /lib/libavl.so.1 ~/project/pkg/repo/pkg-clone
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 14724 Jun 19 10:43 /lib/libavl.so.1*
$ elfdump /lib/libavl.so.1 > /dev/null
$
(elfdump will print an "invalid file type" message to stderr for a
non-ELF file. Success rules out some, but not all, corruption
scenarios...)
2. You probably need to truss rpcbind to determine what's causing it
to fail.
- Stephen
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