Customer installed the recommended 2.5.1 patches. When he booted, rootuser.sh presented the following errors:
ifconfig bad address le0 le0 arp - revarp failed no rarp replies bad address hme0 hme0 auto-revarp failed: no rarp replies received. |
System fails to: resolve host ip address from /etc/host and no other rarp servers responded to the systems request for it's IP address.
The workaround is to put files before dns [NOT FOUND=return] in /etc/nsswitch.conf
This matches bug number 4040423. Its summary is: if dns [NOTFOUND=return] appears before files in /etc/nsswitch.conf, at boot-time ifconfig complains about bad address. In some cases this can cause the boot to fail.