Hi,
Looks like the devname filesystem is confused. DO the following
1. Use "ln -s" to create /dev/null manually
# ln -s ../devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:null /dev/null
2. Do a reboot -d to generate a kernel core file
3. File a bug and attach core file to bug report.
The system should come up normally after a reboot.
BTW, mention the exact conditions when this problem happened (was it normal
boot or install boot - did you do anything in /dev etc.)
Vikram
----- Original Message ----
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: François Feugeas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] /dev/null disappeared and
unable to recreate it
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 ?
>
>
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