Re: Unable to boot Solaris 10 after adding recommended patches

Thank you for the swift replies!

extraspecialbitter@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
A few days ago I installed Solaris 10 on my Pentium 4-based PC. After
a day of customization, I elected to install the patches recommended by
the Update Center. I haven't been able to reboot since.
The process gets as far as the "console login" prompt, after which I
get the errors:
syslogd: line 24: WARNING: loghost could not be resolved
sendmail[371]: My unqualified host name (solaris) unknown; sleeping for
retry
sendmail[372]: My unqualified host name (solaris) unknown; sleeping for
retry

"solaris", by the way, is the hostname of the PC. I am using DHCP on a
small LAN behind a Netgear FVS318 that is functioning both as a router
and a firewall.

/var/adm/messages features the same to sendmail errors, but with the
following variation:
sendmail[371]: My unqualified host name (solaris) unknown -- using
short name
sendmail[372]: My unqualified host name (solaris) unknown -- using
short name

Probably the contents of /etc/nodename??

That would be "solaris", terminated with carriage return.

solaris-sys-suspend:[ID221072 daemon.notice] System is being shut down
Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

This is something else that needs to be fixed : / .Probably. man
sys-suspend

If only I could boot in multi-user I could read the man page!
Seriously, I could always google for the answer.

what setup, if any, have you done for sendmail?

None. I don't plan to use it on my desktop, so perhaps disabling it
would be a good idea. Is there an easy way to do this?

Have you put the FQD name of your system in /etc/hosts? That usually
fixes sendmail complaints. Boot single-user, edit /etc/hosts, then exit
single-user and see if it comes up. DHCP creates an /etc/hosts but it does not add loghost > > or a FQDN necessarily.

DHCP creates an entry with the hostname "unknown" assigned to the IP
address.

As far as I can tell it never adds a loghost entry ... the FQDN is relative
to what ends up in /etc/resolv.conf which dhcpagent may also add or alter.

Best to do a Google search on Solaris Rite DHCP and walk through Rich's tutorial.

Rich's tutorial was excellent, but apparently I'm not executing the
"set_hostname" script he recommended using. He mentions that it
shouldn't be necessary in Solaris 10, but I decided to implement it
anyway when none of the other suggestions worked. At the moment I'm
back on my BLAG Linux desktop, which has been 100% predictable and
reliable.

As this is a private home LAN, I didn't do anything special with
/etc/resolv.conf, but I will continue to look for DHCP troubleshooting
posts.

.

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