svc console-login:default won't start

Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK

2010-09-21 09:46:16 UTC

Some questions and suggestions to get you started:

1) Are you in single-user or were placed in maintenance mode (e.g.
due to boot archive out of sync or critical filesystem won't mount)?
If so, fix any outstanding issue.s

2) Did you change the current running milestone using "svcadm
milestone XXX" where XXX != "all" ?
If so, run "svcadm milestone all".

2) Have you changed the default milestone away from the default of
"all"?
If so, do "svcadm milestone -d all".

In all of the above cases, if you are currently logged into the
single-user mode login or maintenance shell (sulogin in both cases
IIRC), then you will need to exit this shell. sulogin and console-login
are exclusive (otherwise they fight for control of the console, and
you're never sure which one receives the command you just typed). If
console-login still cannot run, you should be prompted by sulogin again.

If none of the above is true, can you provide a full "svcs -a" output
please? and also confirm how you are logged into the system (i.e.
through gdm, single-user mode, etc..)

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Brian

Post by Greg Terkanian
First off, please tell me if this is the right forum to be posting this.
I'm having an issue with a particular snv_130 system. The svc console-login:default is in the offline state and I can't seem to start it. I've tried enabling debugging output of restarter:default, but nothing seems to log to /var/svc/log/svc.startd.log or /var/adm/messsages for that matter. I've googled around and haven't found much help.
svc:/system/console-login:default (Console login)
State: offline since September 16, 2010 3:21:43 PM CDT
Reason: Unknown.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-AR
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M ttymon
Impact: This service is not running.
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Aug_18 svc:/system/auditd:default
online Aug_18 svc:/system/identity:node
online Aug_18 svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default
online Aug_18 svc:/milestone/sysconfig:default
online Aug_18 svc:/system/utmp:default
fmri svc:/system/console-login:default
name Console login
enabled true
state offline
next_state none
state_time September 16, 2010 3:21:43 PM CDT
restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
dependency require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/minimal (online)
dependency require_all/none svc:/system/identity:node (online)
dependency require_all/none svc:/system/utmp:default (online)
dependency require_all/none svc:/milestone/sysconfig (online)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/system/auditd (disabled)
Thanks,
Greg

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Brian Ruthven
Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining)
Oracle UK