pooladm: configuration at '/etc/pooladm.conf' cannot be instantiated on current system

(Doc ID 1311759.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 01, 2016

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 10 10/08 U6 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Trying to instantiate a pool configuration fails:

# pooladm -n -c /etc/pooladm.conf
pooladm: configuration at '/etc/pooladm.conf' cannot be instantiated on current system

Or the pools:default service fails to start and goes to maintenance.


svc:/system/pools:default (resource pools framework)
State: maintenance since Thu Apr 07 12:52:48 2011
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
See: man -M /usr/sh are/man -s 3LIB libpool
See: man -M /usr/shar e/man -s 1M pooladm
See: man -M /usr/sha re/man -s 1M poolbind
See: man -M /usr/shar e/man -s 1M poolcfg
See: man -M /usr/sha re/man -s 1M poolstat
See: /var/svc/log/system-pools:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.


 /var/svc/log/system-pools:default.log show:


Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-pools start") ]
pooladm: configuration at '/etc/pooladm.conf' cannot be instantiated on current
system
[ Apr 7 12:52:48 Method "start" exited with status 96 ]

Cause

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