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There exist 2 scenarios named 'Scenario A' and 'Scenario B' which exhibit these symptoms.

(domain C is used in the examples provided).

Scenario A) When a Sun Fire[TM] 12K/15K/E20K/E25K domain is rebooted from the OS using the 'reboot' or 'init 6' command, the domain fails to reboot and the following message(s) is contained in ' /var/opt/SUNWSMS/adm/C/messages':

Jul  2 13:58:59 2003 mysc dsmd[25014]-C(): [5304 1647271740253715 ERR SysControl.cc 1841] Domain failed by hpost: ecode=39


and in the corresponding post log, '/var/opt/SUNWSMS/SMS1.3/adm/C/post':

post030702.1358.58.log

# SMI Sun Fire 15K POST log opened Wed Jul  2 13:58:58 2003
# hpost version   1.3 Generic 114608-02 Apr 17 2003 16:31:51
# libxcpost.so v. 1.3 Generic 114608-02 Apr 17 2003 16:26:55
# pid = 13459  level = 16   verbose_level = 20
# SC name: mysc.MCSC-Lab-Heimstetten.Germany.Sun.COM    ChHostID: 5014936438953
# Domain Id = C
# Cmdline:  /opt/SUNWSMS/SMS1.3/bin/hpost -d C
Unable to open .postrc file /etc/opt/SUNWSMS/config/C/.postrc
        Permission denied
Errors in .postrc file. Bailing out!
# SMI Sun Fire 15K POST log closed Wed Jul  2 13:58:58 2003

In this case using setkeyswitch off/on will reboot the domain(s) but not solve the problem at all for rebooting using "init 6" or "reboot".  The corrective action is described below.

Scenario b) running 'setkeyswitch -d C on' generates the following output:

Unable to open .postrc file ./.postrc
Permission denied
Can't create logs directory /var/opt/SUNWSMS/adm/anonymous
Created POST logs directory ./post
Exitcode = 39: Error in .postrc file
[5304] Domain failed by hpost: ecode=39

In this case you must use the solution which is described in the next section.

-rw-r--r--   1 sms-svc  staff          9 Mar 19 09:32 .postrc

The corresponding '.postrc' file can be determined by the log data as described in the above scenarios.

for a)

Unable to open .postrc file /etc/opt/SUNWSMS/config/C/.postrc
Permission denied

details which '.postrc' has the wrong access rights.

for b)

Unable to open .postrc file ./.postrc
Permission denied

Describes that in the directory where the 'setkeyswitch' command is run ( the current working directory) the '.postrc' file has the wrong access rights.

In both cases changing the access rights of the corresponding '.postrc' file to '644' is the solution.

- Technical background:

1) When post is run on the SC, it looks for the '.postrc' file in three locations. The first one it finds, is the one it will use. The order is: - ./ (current working directory; for dsmd /var/tmp is its current working directory.) - /etc/opt/SUNWSMS/config/<domain_id> - /etc/opt/SUNWSMS/config/platform

2) There exist different users with different UIDs:

/etc/passwd

sms-dsmd
:x:
12
:20:SMS Domain Status Monitoring Daemon::

sms-svc
:x:
6
:10:SMS Service User:/export/home/sms-svc:/bin/csh

user dsmd-svc id==12 user sms-svc id==6

3)  Given Scenario A, when a 'reboot / init 6' command is used, hpost is run by user 'sms-dsmd'.

If the used [see 1) ] '.postrc' has the following access rights set:

-rw-------   1 sms-svc  staff          9 Mar 19 09:32 .postrc

user 'sms-dsmd' cannot read the file and you run in problem a).

Given Scenario B, when the 'setkeyswitch -d C on' command is run by user 'sms-svc', hpost is run by user 'sms-svc'.

If the used [see 1) ] '.postrc' has the following access rights set:

-rw-------   1 sms-dsmd  staff          9 Mar 19 09:32 .postrc

user 'sms-svc' cannot read the file and you run in problem b).

3c) If the used [see 1) ] '.postrc' has the following access rights set:

-rw-------   1 root  staff          9 Mar 19 09:32 .postrc

You will run into problem a) and b) because neither user 'sms-dsmd' nor user 'sms-svc' can read the file.

- Avoiding such a situation:

1. Verify that all '.postrc' files are world readable. Even if the platform '.postrc' file is world readable and the domain_id is not, post will fail because the domain_id '.postrc' file will be used first.

2) Verify that there exist only wanted/needed '.postrc' files and no random/test instances.

e.g.:  When a 'reboot / init 6' command is used, hpost is run by user 'sms-dsmd'. This user (like all of the other user daemons for SMS) has a home directory of /var/tmp. Since hpost is run by this user, this user's home directory is considered to be "./ (current working directory)". Verify that there is not a copy of .postrc in /var/tmp.

If there is, there will be a /var/tmp/post directory created with the post logs from the reboot.

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