[OpenIndiana-discuss] System hangs on boot: No space on device msg.

[Kees Nuyt]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 12:44:44 -0700, Nick wrote:

> Hi everyone!

> This is my first post / install of OI and I just ran into 
> a curious issue. While trying to mount a NFS share 
> (exported from the OI server) on a client box, the OI 
> server crashed. I got the black screen of death, what 
> looked like a log dump, then the system restated. It 
> never came back up and I get the following error msg 
> after I halt the boot:

> svc.startd[9] Could not log for 
> svc:/network/dns/mulitcast:default: write(30) failed with 
> No space left on device?

> I don't have anything else on the bood drive other than 
> the OS so... I'm not sure what could be filling up the 
> drive? Maybe a log file of some kind? I can't seem to 
> delete anything regardless. It gives me a no space error 
> when I try and delete anything?

No space error on deleting is typical for a full zpool.
To delete a file in a copy-on-write filesystem like zfs, it has to
write a new copy of the directory. 

> Any suggestions?

Destroy one or more snapshots to create some space.
zfs list -t all will reveal them.

Then investigate /var/cores, /var/crash, /var/adm, /var/log etc.
for space hogs.

If you can't get it booted from the hard drive :
* Boot the system with a live CD
* Import the rpool with 
	zpool import -R /altroot
	Probably -f is required to get it imported
* proceed as above

HTH
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  (  Kees Nuyt
  )
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