Francois, I'm reposting this on indiana-discuss to see if anyone on that list can provide some input.
Is this happening during a netinstall? Can you provide the output of ls -l /dev/null? Cindy François Feugeas wrote: > Hello, > > We're having a strange issue on one of our OpenSolaris 64bit installs. For > some unknown reason, /dev/null disappeared. We tried to reboot but it didn't > help. We're running SNV93. > > /devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:null does exist and permissions are correct > : > # ls -l /devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 13, 2 août 21 15:59 /devices/pseudo/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]:null > > devfsadm and devfsadm -P fail : > # devfsadm -V chatty | grep null > devfsadm: cannot create link: /dev/null -> ../devices/pseudo/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]:null. max attempts exceeded > devfsadm[2456]: chatty: minor_process: node=mm, minor=null > devfsadm[2456]: chatty: reset_node_permissions: > phy_path=/devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:null lphy_path=/pseudo/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]:null > > /dev is writable by root and I can create files or symlinks into it, as long > as they're not named, you guessed it, "null". > > I didn't find any reference to that particular issue. Has anyone encountered > that issue already ? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > sysadmin-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
