zfs discuss - Jun 2010 - NOTICE: spa_import_rootpool: error 5

IHAC

Who has an x4500(x86 box) who has a zfs root filesystem. They installed 
patches today,
the latest solaris 10 x86 recommended patch cluster and the patching 
seemed to complete
successfully. Then when they tried to reboot the box the machine would 
not boot? They
get the following error


NOTICE: spa_import_rootpool: error 5, Inc. All rights reserved.
Cannot mount root on
/pci at 0,0/pci8086,25f8 at 4/pci111d,801c at 0/pci111d,801c at 4/pci108e,286 at
0/disk at 0,0:a

/pci at 0,0/pci8086,25f8 at 4/pci111d,801c at 0/pci111d,801c at 4/pci108e,286 at
0/disk at 1,0:a

fstype zfs

panic[cpu0]/thread=fffffffffbc28820: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

fffffffffbc4b190 genunix:vfs_mountroot+323 ()
fffffffffbc4b1d0 genunix:main+a9 ()
fffffffffbc4b1e0 unix:_start+95 ()

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...


The customer states that he backed out the kernel patch 142901-12 and then
the x4500 boots successfully???  Has anyone seen this? It almost seems like
the zfs root pool is not being seen upon reboot??

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Mark:

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 23:21, Mark S Durney <mark.durney at oracle.com>
wrote:
> IHAC
>
> Who has an x4500(x86 box) who has a zfs root filesystem. They installed
> patches today,
> the latest solaris 10 x86 recommended patch cluster and the patching seemed
> to complete
> successfully. Then when they tried to reboot the box the machine would not
> boot? They
> get the following error
>
>
> NOTICE: spa_import_rootpool: error 5, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Cannot mount root on
> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,25f8 at 4/pci111d,801c at 0/pci111d,801c at
4/pci108e,286 at 0/disk at 0,0:a
> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,25f8 at 4/pci111d,801c at 0/pci111d,801c at
4/pci108e,286 at 0/disk at 1,0:a
> fstype zfs
>
> panic[cpu0]/thread=fffffffffbc28820: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
>
> fffffffffbc4b190 genunix:vfs_mountroot+323 ()
> fffffffffbc4b1d0 genunix:main+a9 ()
> fffffffffbc4b1e0 unix:_start+95 ()
>
> skipping system dump - no dump device configured
> rebooting...
>
>
> The customer states that he backed out the kernel patch 142901-12 and then
> the x4500 boots successfully??? ?Has anyone seen this? It almost seems like
> the zfs root pool is not being seen upon reboot??
I think I remember seeing something similar that was related to not
updating the GRUB bootloader. After applying the patch, try to run
"installgrub" before rebooting.
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Hope it helps.


Cheers.

-- 

Pablo M?ndez Hern?ndez

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Mark S Durney wrote:
>
> The customer states that he backed out the kernel patch 142901-12 and then
> the x4500 boots successfully???  Has anyone seen this? It almost seems like
> the zfs root pool is not being seen upon reboot??
You should find out from your customer what kernel release/patch level 
they were at before.

Bob
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/