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Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

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.

Special Symbols

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

See Also

When further reading is suggested for a topic mentioned in the message explanation, the v 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 2.7 Reference Manual AnswerBook

See ls(1). 

% 

C shell prompt 

% ls -a

$ 

Bourne or Korn shell prompt 

$ ls -a

# 

Superuser prompt 

# ls -a