Sun Fire 3800 Server
 
Sun Fire 6800 Server
 
Sun Fire 4800 Server
 

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Solaris won't boot from CD or disk with the following error messages:

cat: Cannot stat stdout

adb: getexecname() failed

/sbin/rcS: /etc/vfstab: cannot create

Resolution

These messages are described in bugid 4155476. What's really going on here is that your SC has an invalid date set on it in the domain shell for the domain that you're trying to boot. Solaris is picking up this invalid date and trying to run with it. The messages above are a direct result of Solaris being unable to mount the /proc filesystem because of the invalid date. The first thing to do here is to go to the domain shell and set the date correctly. The second thing to do is to use a version of Solaris later than Solaris 8 01/01, the key being that you need at least the -07 rev of kernel patch 108528 which fixes bug 4381821. With -07 and greater, Solaris will detect that there is an invalid date and show the following, more informative, error messages instead:

WARNING: todsg: Date overflow detected. Correct the date.

WARNING: Time-of-day chip had incorrect date; check and reset.

Solaris will then ignore the tod chip's setting and set the time and date to that of when it was last shut down.

Product
Sun Fire 6800 Server
Sun Fire 3800 Server
Sun Fire 4800 Server

Internal Comments

Authors:John Cecere

normalized
Previously Published As
26879

Change History
Date: 2007-12-22
User Name: 67850
Action: Update Canceled
Comment: *** Restored Published Content *** No changes made. Thought of deleting it as problem is ancient, but recommendation was to keep it.
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Date: 2007-03-12
User Name: 67850
Action: Update Started
Comment: Updated as part of 1280 Normalization effort. Added Normalized to keywords and Internal Only disclaimer.
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Date: 2006-01-19
User Name: 31620
Action: Approved
Comment: SSH AUDIT
Version: 1
Date: 2006-01-19
User Name: 31620
Action: Update Started
Comment: SSH AUDIT
Version: 0
Date: 2003-05-20
User Name: Administrator
Action: Migration from KMSCreator
Comment: updated by : George Bolduc
comment : Added (3800-6800) to the title.
date : Aug 14, 2001



updated by : George Bolduc
comment : Article created.
date : May 10, 2001



updated by : George Bolduc
comment : Transferred from the Control Center's website.
date : May 10, 2001



updated by : George Bolduc
comment : Transferred from the Control Center's website.
date : May 10, 2001
Version: 0
Product_uuid
29da7938-0a18-11d6-8a41-9ed1ad6d6779|Sun Fire 6800 Server
29d05214-0a18-11d6-92b2-a111614865b5|Sun Fire 3800 Server
29d3a694-0a18-11d6-92da-df959df44cdd|Sun Fire 4800 Server

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