Method "/lib/svc/method/net-physical" failed: Solaris 10

[Raqueeb Hassan]

Hello,

[svc:/network/physical:default (physical network interfaces)]

This morning, when changing ip address (1 out of 4 interfaces) of one
of my solaris 10 machine, the machine rebooted with following
message:

svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/physical:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/
net-physical" failed with exit status 96.
[ network/physical:default misconfigured (see 'svcs -x' for details) ]

And they are not reachable from the network. When I ran svcs -x, it
complained about 7 dependent services for being offline.

svc:/network/physical:default (physical network interfaces)
State: maintenance since Wed Apr xx.xx
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
See: ifconfig(1M)
See: /etc/svc/volatile/network-physical:default.log
Impact: 7 dependent services are not running. (Use -v for list.)

The output of svcs -v says that svc:/network/physical:default is in
maintenace more.

maintenance - xx:xx:xx - svc:/network/
physical:default

Similarly, here the /etc/svc/volatile/network-physical:default.log
says

[ xx:xx Enabled. ]
[ xx:xx Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/net-physical") ]
[ xx:xx Timeout override by svc.startd. Using infinite timeout ]
configuring IPv4 interfaces: bge0 bge1 bge2 bge3.
add net default: gateway xx.xx.xx.4: Network is unreachable
[ xx:xx Method "start" exited with status 96 ]

How do I get this svc working? What am I missing here?

TIA

--
Raqueeb Hassan
Bangladesh

[weathe...@gmail.com]

> [ xx:xx Enabled. ]
> [ xx:xx Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/net-physical") ]
> [ xx:xx Timeout override by svc.startd. Using infinite timeout ]
> configuring IPv4 interfaces: bge0 bge1 bge2 bge3.
> add net default: gateway xx.xx.xx.4: Network is unreachable
> [ xx:xx Method "start" exited with status 96 ]

Raqueeb.

You mentioned that you had changed the ip address of one of the
interfaces. Is this the interface which has the default gateway on
it? It appears that maybe you changed which subnet the interface is
on and now the default gateway cannot be configured.

> add net default: gateway xx.xx.xx.4: Network is unreachable

I'm still trying to come up to speed on the solaris 10
initialization process so I'm no expert but it was not clear from your
post if you looked into the default gateway error message or not.

HTH.
G

[eli.sap...@gmail.com]

can you please list the operation you did to change the ip ...
maybe you did somthing wrong,
by the way today i did the same thing' change the ip of one machine
and i got the same error.
a reboot solved my problem ...
was the interface configured with dhcp before you changed the ip?
did you switch a subnet??

[Raqueeb Hassan]

Thanks for the reply. Well, I saw that error message regarding the
gateway. Well, before changing the ip address, I tried to disable the
nfs service, when I mistakenly issued the command "svcadm disable
network". Should it shutdown all the services in svc:/network/*
hierchy?

<snip>

> It appears that maybe you changed which subnet the interface is
> on and now the default gateway cannot be configured.
>
> > add net default: gateway xx.xx.xx.4: Network is unreachable

I did not use dhcp, and the subnet is okay here. I edited the /etc/
hosts and /etc/inet/ipnodes and created the corresponding
hostname.bgeX.

eli.sapiashv...@gmail.com replied:

> was the interface configured with dhcp before you changed the ip?
> did you switch a subnet??

--
Raqueeb Hassan
Bangladesh

[James Carlson]

Raqueeb Hassan <wide...@gmail.com> writes:
> > It appears that maybe you changed which subnet the interface is
> > on and now the default gateway cannot be configured.
> >
> > > add net default: gateway xx.xx.xx.4: Network is unreachable
>
> I did not use dhcp, and the subnet is okay here. I edited the /etc/
> hosts and /etc/inet/ipnodes and created the corresponding
> hostname.bgeX.

You likely missed the /etc/defaultrouter file.

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