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Zone fails to boot at start

933584Apr 5 2013 — edited Apr 16 2013
I'm having an interesting issue getting a zone to autoboot. Very little info found in google searching.

I have two Solaris 11.1 machines, on one machine I created two zones. A web zone and a DB zone. I then moved the web zone to the other server.
Install went well and it booted fine. However when I reboot the host server I get this message in the system-zones:default.log
+ zoneadm -z sentryweb1-8 boot
ERROR: could not open master side of zone console for sentryweb1-8 to acquire slave handle: Device busy
console setup: device initialization failed
zone 'sentryweb1-8': could not start zoneadmd
zoneadm: zone 'sentryweb1-8': call to zoneadmd failed
+ [[ -n yes ]]
If I wait a minute after boot, I can start the zone using the zoneadm -z <zone> boot just fine.
This is the only zone on the host. The only google thing I found suggested that happens when two zones try for the same console, but I checked /dev/zcons and there is only the one zone listed.

Anyone seen this issue before?

Thanks!

edit - some extra info. Right after host boot, we see that there are multiple zoneadmd starts for the zone.
root  2243  1915   0 12:10:27 ?           0:00 zoneadmd -z sentryweb1-8
root  2244  2243   0 12:10:27 ?           0:00 zoneadmd -z sentryweb1-8
root  1806     1   0 12:09:26 ?           0:00 zoneadmd -z sentryweb1-8
Yet zoneadm list -cv shows it setup just the once:
root@taco:/var/svc/log# zoneadm list -cv
  ID NAME             STATUS     PATH                           BRAND    IP    
   0 global           running    /                              solaris  shared
   - sentryweb1-8     installed  /rpool/zones/sentryweb1-8      solaris  excl  
Edited by: TomS on Apr 5, 2013 12:13 PM
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