Callandor

Recently one of my AIX 5.3 systems started failing to boot with the following messages:

fsck: Performing read-only processing does not produce dependable results.      
+ mount /tmp                                                                    
mount: /dev/hd3 on /tmp: Device busy                                            
+ [ 1 -ne 0 ]                                                                   
+ loopled 0x518 /TMP MNT FAILED        

The problem turned out to be that /etc/inittab was corrupted. This, of course, has nothing to do with the error message. In my case, the contents of the file had been duplicated into itself.