Boot Problem on Ultra 10 (still)
I am still having a boot problem with my Ultra 10 running Solaris 8. The computer was running normally until I performed a shutdown. Now it boots, but does not allow any networking or remote access. Also, I cannot login to a normal graphical session. The error message that shows when it boots is "ifconfig cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1"
I have posted a prior question to this forum and was told to run "dtconfig -e" then reboot. I did this, but it did not fix the problem. The next suggestion was to check the run level to see if it is 3 (it was). I then tried to start the X server with "xinit", but this command would not run. Finally, I was told to check the .xsession-errors file for errors. I could not find an .xsession-errors file anywhere, so either I don't know where to look or one does not exist. The only evidence that it might be an X server problem that I can see comes when you try to log into a normal X session. It takes forever and finally an error box comes up that says that the "dt messaging system cannot be started" and that I should start a failsafe session and check /etc/src.sh, /etc/hosts, and /usr/adm/inetd.sec to make sure that the hostname is correct (only the hosts file exists on the system).
Because of these (and other) tests, I am beginning to believe it is a problem related to the network configuration or hardware, not the X server. Specifically, when I try to run "ifconfig -a", it does nothing (simply returns back to the # prompt with no output). Likewise, "arp -a" also does nothing. Because of some troubleshooting I have done, I believe I have isolated the problem to the S30sysid.net startup script in the rc2.d directory. For some reason, none of the commands in that script will execute. Is there any key tests I should be doing to further isolate the problem? Thanks for your help.
