solaris Erro message set

Preface

System administrators and advanced users can use the Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide to find explanations of some of the more common error messages in the Solaris system.

Look up the messages and explanations here when you see a system message that you don't understand. If the message you're searching for is fairly common, it might be documented in this book.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, "About Error Messages," explains how to find messages in both the AnswerBook Navigator and in the printed book.

Chapter 2, "Alphabetical Message Listing," lists messages alphabetically, with troubleshooting information following each message listing.

Chapter 3, "Permuted Index," alphabetizes messages by key words in the message. Use the permuted index to find messages that contain varying words and numbers.

Special Symbols

Three special symbols are used with the message explanations in this book.

Data Corruption Highly Likely

The bomb symbol next to a message explanation warns that data corruption is highly likely. The situations described are often associated with damage to data, and might require serious and immediate remedial action, depending on the importance of data integrity to your task. Please note that "data corruption" is usually differentiated from "data loss." When data loss is known to be highly likely, it is usually noted in the text of the explanation.

. See Also

When further reading is suggested for a topic mentioned in the message explanation, the .symbol appears next to the first mention of the topic. This tells you to look in the message "See Also" section for sources of more information.

.New Line

This symbol means that the part of this multi-line message following . appears on a separate line.

Deciphering Type Changes And Prompt Symbols

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

AaBbCc123

Variables, book titles, words to be emphasized

To delete a file, type rm filename. Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	Functions, commands, filenames, code, screen displays	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. The setlogmask() function sets...
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with screen displays	machine_name% su Password:
name(num)	The manual page in the Solaris 2.5 Reference Manual AnswerBook	See ls(1).
%	C shell prompt	% ls -a
$	Bourne or Korn shell prompt	$ ls -a
#	Superuser prompt	# ls -a