[OpenIndiana-discuss] system/syseventd, zfs errors and network downtime

[Chris Gerhard]

On 07/10/12 11:53, Richard Jones wrote:
> So I went away for the weekend, and this is what I have come back to.
>
> # zpool-12 status tank
>
>     pool: tank
>     state: ONLINE
>     status: One or more devices has been taken offline by the 
> administrator.
>             Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue 
> functioning in a
>             degraded state.
>     action: Online the device using 'zpool online' or replace the 
> device with
>             'zpool replace'.
>     scan: scrub repaired 0 in 9h28m with 0 errors on Mon Jul  9 
> 08:58:37 2012
>     config:
>
>        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>        tank        ONLINE       0     0     0
>          raidz1-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c2t0d0 ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c2t1d0 ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c2t2d0 ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c2t3d0 ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c0t1d0 ONLINE       0     0     0
>         logs
>           c0t0d0p2 ONLINE       0     0    0

Odd. I would think zpool clear would clear this.


>
> errors: No known data errors
>
> # svcs -xv
> svc:/system/sysevent:default (system event notification)
>   State: maintenance since July 10, 2012 11:38:23 AM BST
> Reason: Restarting too quickly.
>     See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-L5
>     See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M syseventd
>     See: /var/svc/log/system-sysevent:default.log
> Impact: This service is not running.
>
> The network was down half the weekend but otherwise everything looks
> normal. Does anyone have any ideas on how to debug these two problems?
>
> ZFS says it's had some kind of problem but all seems fine now, and
> syseventd just keeps crashing out when restarted.

Define crashing out?  Core dump? Any error messages?

Thanks,

Richard