ACSLS - SMCE Startup Failed and the Service Goes into Maintenance Mode (Doc ID 1628409.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Applies to:

Symptoms

After rebooting the ACSLS server, the SMCE (scsi medium changer emulation) service is not starting, and is being reported in maintenance mode.

svcs -x

===== smce =====
STATE          STIME    FMRI
maintenance    14:37:42 svc:/application/slm/smce:default

Also, the following messages are being logged:

[ Sep 27 08:04:04 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-smce start") ]
SMCE startup failed.
[ Sep 27 08:04:14 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
[ Sep 27 08:05:31 Leaving maintenance because disable requested. ]
[ Sep 27 08:05:31 Disabled. ]
[ Sep 27 08:05:42 Enabled. ]
[ Sep 27 08:05:42 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-smce start") ]
SMCE startup failed.
[ Sep 27 08:05:51 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
[ Feb 16 11:20:25 Leaving maintenance because disable requested. ]
[ Feb 16 11:20:26 Disabled. ]
[ Feb 16 17:15:14 Enabled. ]
[ Feb 16 17:22:19 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-smce start") ]
SMCE startup failed.
[ Feb 16 17:22:29 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
[ Feb 18 10:01:25 Leaving maintenance because disable requested. ]
[ Feb 18 10:01:25 Disabled. ]
[ Feb 18 10:03:57 Enabled. ]
[ Feb 18 10:03:57 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-smce start") ]
SMCE startup failed.

Cause

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