There is a bug where the automatic snapshot service dies if there are multiple boot environments. Do you have these? I think you can check with Update Manager.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> you need zfs list -t snapshot >> >> by default, snapshots aren't shown in zfs list anymore, hence the -t option >> > > Yikes, I've got dozens of the things... I monkeyed around a bit with > timeslider but thought I canceled out whatever settings I'd messed > with. > > Frequent and hourly both are way to often for most of my data. > > I think I've kind of painted myself into a corner. I apparently > turned on timeslider... but one pool had some kind of corruption > problem that I fixed by zpool destroy entire pool. > > But I keep getting errors from timeslider that would put frequent and > hourly into maintenance mode. Which meant I couldn't do anything with > the timeslider applet. It seems a little light on robustness.. not > able to be used if there is any problem. > > Finally I disabled both frequent and hourly... and of course then the > timeslider I unusable because the services are off. > > I tried restarting them again after getting the offending pool rebuilt > involving at least 2 reboots. But now restarting them, and > immediately they go to maintenance mode. And of course the timeslider > applet is useless. > > Looking at the log output its the same as what I posted earlier... in > a different thread. > > www.jtan.com/~reader/slider/disp.cgi > > It appears to be related to not being able to open a crontab file. > > Doesn't say which but I see several in /var/pool/cron/crontabs > > ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs > total 9 > -rw------- 1 root sys 1004 2008-11-19 18:13 adm > -r-------- 1 root root 1365 2008-11-19 18:30 lp > -rw------- 1 root root 1241 2009-03-30 17:15 root > -rw------- 1 root sys 1122 2008-11-19 18:33 sys > -rw------- 1 root daemon 394 2009-03-30 18:06 zfssnap > > So I'm not sure what the problem is. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
