Quoth Adam Leventhal on Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:27:15PM -0700: > I noticed this on console today: > > INIT: Couldn't write persistent state file `/etc/svc/volatile/init.state'. > > Any thoughts on what that might mean?
It means that something which init tries to keep across restarts (like the current runlevel) changed, and then init was not able to write it out, which is strange because /etc/svc/volatile should be a tmpfs mount. This should have no impact until init is restarted, when it might try to restart the system. Often people see this when they run out of swap, as in 6298236. It sounds like that's not true in your case. init only complains once, so you could try truss'ing it while you run init q or something and see if one of st_write()'s system calls is failing. What build was this? David
