Solaris 10 not Starting

System was not coming up, svc-system-sysevent service was not coming up causing the entire system to stay wwithout any network services.

Trying to bring the service online fails and its logs show nothing.

metastat showed the the three metadevices d0, d1, d3 need maintenence
df -h shows root as /pseudi/blahbla which is the md root device path from /etc/system

any attempt to something that writes to the root say “read only filesystem”

for d0
d10 and d20
d10 need to be replaced saying use mtereplace d10 c1t0d0s0 <new device>
and d20 shows needs to be synced, use metasync d20

same for d12 d22 and d13, d23

to solve this problem
metasync d20
nothing happens until we do
metareplace -e d10

Now the mirror start syncing.
repeated for all metadevices
fsck after completion
reboot, everything is now working fine.

My first post

I have been thinking for a long time to create a blog. The main reason I want to create a blog is to keep track of technical issues I run into so that other people may also benefit from it, and so that I have my own reference to previous issues. Not sure that a blog is the right place to do this, but the only way I’ll find out is to start, so here goes.

Hope this blog proves useful to myself and others who view it.