Hi,
ok in that case you will have to take the risk of rebooting without creating
/dev/null.
Do a "reboot -d" to create a core dump file and reboot.
If you have problems on reboot due to missing /dev/null, boot the Live CD,
mount the hard disk and create /dev/null via "ln". That should succeed as you
are then operating outside devname filesystem
Vikram
----- Original Message ----
From: François Feugeas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vikram Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:05:20 PM
Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] /dev/null disappeared and
unable to recreate it
Hello,
I weren't clear the first time, but this issue is encountered on a
system that has been running perfectly for a few weeks (and not during
an install). Nothing special happened on that system, though OpenSSH
(which we use on that system in replacement of SunSSH) crashed on us 10
minutes before we noticed /dev/null went missing. Maybe one issue caused
the other.
Nothing was done under /dev.
As stated earlier, I am not able to create *anything* named "null" under
/dev/ :
# ln -s ../devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:null /dev/null
ln: cannot create /dev/null: No such file or directory
# touch /dev/null
touch: /dev/null cannot create
touch /dev/anything succeeds, though
Best regards,
François Feugeas
>
> ----- 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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