20100525

fc-fabric(ation) of server's dysfunction

Do you like minimization? I do.
But sometimes you can go one bridge too far.

Today I have switched off the set of useless services.
One after one...
Do I need... No!
Do I need... No!
Do I need Fibre Channel Fabric device support? No.

$ svcadm disable fc-fabric

Another one bites the dust.

After the couple of hours I decided to reboot the server to check its readiness to serve.
And... it failed.



Of course at the moment of failure I dit not realize it was caused by service unavailability of fc-fabric.
Unnecessary stress.

The solution has been revealed during the dependencies check.



Keep this in mind.