[OpenIndiana-discuss] System will not boot, boot-archive fails

[Richard Patterson]

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Hi All,

I have a server which will not boot... We had a power cut last week, but
prior to this the system had been up for well over a year.

Now, on bootup, I get messages saying

svc:/system/boot-archive:default: Method or service exit timed out.
Killing contract 16
svc:/system/boot-archive:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/boot-archive"
failed due to signal KILL

It then drops me into maintenance mode.

Once logged in, I can't run bootadm update-archive, as it says another
instance of bootadm is already running. (then console hangs)

Most commands hang the console, such as zpool list, or zfs list.

I also get a very short amount of time to do anything, as it seems to
run out of memory (or swap) after a few minutes

WARNING: /etc/svc/volatile: File system full, swap space limit exceeded

# swap -l
No swap devices configured
# swap -s
17112k bytes allocated + 1623k reserved = 18744k used, 10439268k available

If I run swap -s again, the figures are the same, except the available
is reducing.

OpenIndiana Build oi_151a9 64-bit (illumos 52e13e00ba)

32GB Ram, Quad-core AMD CPU

rpool is on a single 250GB SATA drive.

8 other drives present (2TB each), but allocated to zpool "backups"

Before the power cut, the "backups" pool was nearly out of space too.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Richard

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