[17400] in Athena Bugs
Re: Solaris clients with filesystem corruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Dec 1 22:11:46 1999
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:11:40 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199912020311.WAA93287@oliver.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17399] in Athena Bugs"
>> The first machine was an Ultra 5. It had a four-letter name I don't
>> recall right now. At boot time, it got stuck on "retrying host
>> configuration", which is a message from /etc/init.d/rootusr. The
>> cause of the problem was that /etc/hostname.hme0 had been truncated to
>> zero length.
I think that this is the same problem that I reported in bugs[17350].
At the time, I speculated that this was a syncconf bug, and I still
think it seems likely. It's also worth pointing out that while this
problem has become a lot more common recently, it's existed since 8.3
went out (I saw a machine lose this way the day 8.3 was released), and
it's popped up in various places since then (I most recently fixed a
machine of alexp's that was losing this way).
Garry
