Solaris 10 Requires Additional Steps to Recover From the Failure of a Cluster File System to Mount at Boot Time (6211485)

Problem Summary: The Solaris 10 OS requires different recovery procedures than previous versions of the Solaris OS when a cluster file system fails to mount at boot time. Rather than present a login prompt, the mountgfsys service might fail and put the node into the maintenance state. The output messages are similar to the following:

WARNING - Unable to globally mount all filesystems.
Check logs for error messages and correct the problems.
 
May 18 14:06:58 pkaffa1 svc.startd[8]: system/cluster/mountgfsys:default misconfigured
 
May 18 14:06:59 pkaffa1 Cluster.CCR: /usr/cluster/bin/scgdevs: 
Filesystem /global/.devices/node@1 is not available in /etc/mnttab.

Workaround: After you repair the mount problem for the cluster file system, you must manually bring the mountgfsys service back online. Run the following commands to bring the mountgfsys service online and to synchronize the global devices namespace:

# svcadm clear svc:/system/cluster/mountgfsys:default
# svcadm clear svc:/system/cluster/gdevsync:default

Boot processing will now continue.