[OpenIndiana-discuss] metainit service not running

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 16.04.17 um 01:22 schrieb Harry Putnam:
>> Hi Brogyi
>>
>> Could it be that you ran into https://www.illumos.org/issues/7797?
>> Is your Installation up to date?
>> Would be interesting to know if that is the case.
> Excuse me barging in but I hit that issue on boot up with at least 2
> hipster hosts.. one hardware 1 vm
>
> Both are thoroughly up to date last week and updated today to make
> sure.
>
> I haven't payed much attention to it since the service is something I
> don't currently have need of.  I just assumed it would go away sooner
> or later.
>
> svcs -xv
>
> svc:/system/metainit:default (SVM initialization)
>   State: maintenance since April 15, 2017 12:01:37 PM EDT
> Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last exited with status 127.
>     See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-KS
>     See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M metainit
>     See: /var/svc/log/system-metainit:default.log
> Impact: This service is not running.
>
>
>
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It is very likely that you both have been hit by 7797 as Till already 
mentioned.
svm has been removed from illumos (and thus from OpenIndiana) a couple 
of weeks ago.
Alas the automatic cleanup of services didn't work under some 
circumstances and so
it could happen that the metainit service (which belongs to svm) is 
still trying to start.
You will have to manually remove the remnents of it by issuing
     svccfg delete metainit
After that it may also be necessary to run
     svcadm clear metainit

Regards
Andreas