[OpenIndiana-discuss] "/lib/svc/method/fs-minimal" failed during booting

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 07/29/16 11:13 AM, Vishal Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> After building illumos-gate on openindiana hipster latest release, I am not able to boot into newly built kernel.
> I followed steps from the illumos-gate wiki(http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/How+To+Build+illumos)
>
> The system goes into the Maintenance Mode with error "/lib/svc/method/fs-minimal failed with exit status 95".
>
> This is the output of 'scvcs -x'
>
> svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default (minimal file system mounts)
>   State: maintenance since July 29, 2016 12:18:42 PM IST
> Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL.
>     See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-KS
>     See: /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-minimal:default.log
> Impact: 61 dependent services are not running.  (Use -v for list.)
>
> svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default (removable media management)
>   State: uninitialized since July 29, 2016 12:18:32 PM IST
> Reason: Restarter svc:/network/inetd:default is not running.
>     See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-5H
>     See: rpc.smserverd(1M)
> Impact: 3 dependent services are not running.  (Use -v for list.)
>
> And here is what /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-minimal:default.log contains
>
> [ Jul 29 13:06:35 Enabled. ]
> [ Jul 29 13:06:45 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-minimal"). ]
> ERROR: /sbin/mount -O -F tmpfs  swap /var/run failed, err=1
> mount: /var/run: No such file or directory
> [ Jul 29 13:06:45 Method "start" exited with status 95. ]
>
> I am new to openindiana. Can anyone help me?
> Thank you in advance.


Hi.
Could it be related to https://www.illumos.org/issues/6464 ?
If it is, you can boot previous BE and ensure that 
rpool/ROOT/BE_NAME/var mountpoint is set to /var


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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department