After a fresh install, my third in a series this last week (inside vbox), this time on windows XP, I'm unable to turn on the auto-snapshot services.
I enabled the time slider in the gui then proceeded to try to turn on the services. I got in a hurry and tried to do it with a for loop from the cmdline like this: for ii in `svcs -a|grep auto-snapshot`;do svcadm enable -r $ii done Well, that was a pretty horrible thing to do since it fed lots of garbage to svcadm. The ouput lines were of the form: offline 23:08:58 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily So of course the shell interpreter saw `offline' as a command, `23:08:58' as a command and finally svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily svcadm was a bit flummoxed by it all. Then when I realized my stupidity and tried a more conservative method: svcadm enable auto-snapshot:NAME They weren't starting so I attributed it to having jimmied things up with the dumb for loop. So I rebooted thinking that would give svcadm time to forgive me. But I see from dmesg and /var/adm/messages that there is still a big problem... I kind of doubt now that it is related to my boner command but maybe someone here will know, or know what to check into about this. It doesn't appear to be the same as a couple of fairly recent bugs I googled up about the timeslider. So on reboot heres what I see: ----- -------- ----- --=-- ----- ------- ----- from dmesg (wrapped for mail): Dec 4 23:11:46 voi2 svc.startd[9]: [ID 122153 daemon.warning] svc:/application/time-slider:default: Method or service exit timed out. Killing contract 108. Dec 4 23:11:46 voi2 svc.startd[9]: [ID 636263 daemon.warning] svc:/application/time-slider:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/time-slider start" failed due to signal KILL. Dec 4 23:12:47 voi2 svc.startd[9]: [ID 122153 daemon.warning] svc:/application/time-slider:default: Method or service exit timed out. Killing contract 116. Dec 4 23:12:47 voi2 svc.startd[9]: [ID 636263 daemon.warning] svc:/application/time-slider:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/time-slider start" failed due to signal KILL. Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 svc.startd[9]: [ID 122153 daemon.warning] svc:/application/time-slider:default: Method or service exit timed out. Killing contract 117. Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 svc.startd[9]: [ID 636263 daemon.warning] svc:/application/time-slider:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/time-slider start" failed due to signal KILL. Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 svc.startd[9]: [ID 748625 daemon.error] application/time-slider:default failed: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details) Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 fmd: [ID 377184 daemon.error] SUNW-MSG-ID: SMF-8000-YX, TYPE: defect, VER: 1, SEVERITY: major Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 EVENT-TIME: Sat Dec 4 23:13:48 CST 2010 Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 PLATFORM: VirtualBox, CSN: 0, HOSTNAME: voi2 Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 SOURCE: software-diagnosis, REV: 0.1 Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 EVENT-ID: 391f62ce-2b35-4756-ccca-cbf642d20671 Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 DESC: A service failed - a method is failing in a retryable manner but too often. Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 Refer to http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-YX for more information. Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 AUTO-RESPONSE: The service has been placed into the maintenance state. Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 IMPACT: svc:/application/time-slider:default is unavailable. Dec 4 23:13:48 voi2 REC-ACTION: Run 'svcs -xv svc:/application/time-slider:default' to determine the generic reason why the service failed, the location of any logfiles, and a list of other services impacted. ----- -------- ----- --=-- ----- ------- ----- Following the advice from the last log there and running: svcs -xv svc:/application/time-slider:default State: maintenance since December 4, 2010 11:13:48 PM CST Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last died on Killed (9). See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M zfs See: /var/svc/log/application-time-slider:default.log Impact: 5 dependent services are not running: svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:monthly svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:weekly _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss