Re: [cifs-discuss] idmap fails to start with SMF - error creating database /var/idmap/idmap.db

2011-03-29 Thread Marc Steinlein
>> Speaking as the Oracle person that Nico is obliquely referring to... :-) Hehe, we called the miracle loud and insistent, and the miracle answered "Well, here I speaking as the oracle person ...". Nice! ;-) >> Other than that, what I would do is to try to collect a "truss" of idmapd >> runnin

Re: [cifs-discuss] idmap fails to start with SMF - error creating database /var/idmap/idmap.db

2011-03-29 Thread Nico Williams
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Re: [cifs-discuss] idmap fails to start with SMF - error creating database /var/idmap/idmap.db

2011-03-29 Thread Jordan Brown
On 03/29/11 10:33, Nico Williams wrote: start/type astring method svc:/system/idmap> setprop start/exec = "truss -o /tmp/t -v all -t all -f /usr/lib/idmapd" In this particular case, maybe. In general, no. Remember that SMF expects the start method to exit when the service is re

Re: [cifs-discuss] idmap fails to start with SMF - error creating database /var/idmap/idmap.db

2011-03-29 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Jordan Brown wrote: > Speaking as the Oracle person that Nico is obliquely referring to... :-) :) > Other than that, what I would do is to try to collect a "truss" of idmapd > running.  Unfortunately, it's not convenient to get a truss of a service > from its s

Re: [cifs-discuss] idmap fails to start with SMF - error creating database /var/idmap/idmap.db

2011-03-29 Thread Jordan Brown
Speaking as the Oracle person that Nico is obliquely referring to... :-) I've never seen such a symptom. (Well, I saw something similar when our test suite damaged the databases, but that's presumably not happening here.) Does it fail only on boot, or also on "svcadm restart idmap"? (Or, if

Re: [cifs-discuss] idmap fails to start with SMF - error creating database /var/idmap/idmap.db

2011-03-29 Thread Nico Williams
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Marc Steinlein wrote: >> I wasn't referring to permissions, but to /var being mounted >> read-only.  You're using 151a, so /var shouldn't be mounted read-only >> (you must be using ZFS root, and ZFS starts with / and /var mounted >> read-write).  Do you have a sepa