From: chuckers on
Hardware: Sun Fire X4150
Software: SunOS globalhost50 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc
/etc/release:
Solaris 10 10/09 s10x_u8wos_08a X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 16 September 2009

Set up:

Global host with mirrored root ZFS pool hosting 2 zones: zone51 and
zone52

No root access work or fiddling done in Global zone nor any root level
activity in zone51 (problem zone.)

A number of processes suddenly died in zone51 and the following
messages appeared in /var/adm/messages:

Mar 12 10:49:15 zone51 automountd[10804]: [ID 204466 daemon.error]
SIGHUP received: ignored
Mar 12 10:49:15 zone51 automountd[10804]: [ID 204466 daemon.error]
SIGHUP received: ignored
Mar 12 10:49:16 zone51 rpcbind: [ID 362760 daemon.alert] no value for
config/allow_indirect (connection to repository broken). Using default
"true"
Mar 12 10:49:16 zone51 rpcbind: [ID 362760 daemon.alert] no value for
config/local_only (repository server unavailable). Using default
"false"
Mar 12 10:49:16 zone51 inetd[7672]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Unable to
read debug property from config property group. scf_simple_prop_get()
failed: connection to repository broken
Mar 12 10:49:16 zone51 inetd[7672]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Failed to
refresh instance svc:/network/proftp:default: repository server
unavailable
Mar 12 10:49:16 zone51 inetd[7672]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Failed to
refresh instance svc:/network/rpc-100235_1/rpc_ticotsord:default:
repository server unavailable
Mar 12 10:49:16 zone51 inetd[7672]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Failed to
refresh instance svc:/network/login:rlogin: repository server
unavailable

[...] etc etc.

Contents of /var/svc/log/svc.startd.log:

Feb 12 17:54:11/329 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 12 17:54:11/329 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 12 17:54:11/329 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 12 17:54:11/329: network/ipsec/policy:default failed: transitioned
to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
Feb 12 17:55:27/189 ERROR: svc:/application/stosreg:default: Could not
interpret user property.
Feb 12 17:55:27/189: application/stosreg:default failed: transitioned
to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
Feb 12 18:08:49/301 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 12 18:08:49/301 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 12 18:08:49/301 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 12 18:08:49/301: network/ipsec/policy:default failed: transitioned
to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
Feb 17 15:39:53/297 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 17 15:39:53/297 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 17 15:39:53/297 ERROR: svc:/network/ipsec/policy:default: Method "/
usr/sbin/ipsecconf -F" failed with exit status 1.
Feb 17 15:39:53/297: network/ipsec/policy:default failed: transitioned
to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
Mar 12 10:49:16/1: restarting after interruption

Again, no restart was initiated in the zone nor from the global zone.
No messages found in the global zone.

There is a second zone on the machine zone52 but nothing untoward was
noticed on that machine.

Any ideas what might have caused restarter to restart and how to
prevent it from happening again?