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Zones Fail to Boot with Error in Function get_current_gzbe () (Doc ID 2916206.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 19, 2023

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 10 to 11.4 [Release 10.0 to 11.0]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

 Attempting to boot zones fail with error:

# zoneadm -z <zone> boot
Unrecoverable internal error:
fail_internal[171]:
fatal[110]:
get_current_gzbe[2207]:
get_active_be[145]:
mount_active_be[2251]:
/usr/lib/brand/solaris/prestate[39]:
ERROR: fatal (unable to determine global zone boot environment.) called with undefined $EXIT_CODE
zoneadm: zone <zone>: call to zoneadmd(8) failed: zoneadmd(8) returned an error 9 (zone state change failed)

 

The /var/log/zones/<zone>.messages file will also mention:
     su: Shell not executable

Cause

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