Group property errors when starting services

Question

I'm having some problems with SMF in Solaris 10. When booting the system, three services (rpcbind, cron, and sac) fail to start with SMF and enter a maintenance state. As a result, the system never makes it to multi-user-server level. When looking at the verbose boot output, each service fails with the following command (rpc/bind for example):
svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/rpc/bind:default: Could not interpret group property.
When I try to start rpcbind manually, it starts without any problems except the following entries are sent to the syslog daemon:
rpcbind: [ID 837648 daemon.alert] unable to get enable_tcpwrappers cannot use unset argument
rpcbind: [ID 855099 daemon.alert] unable to get verbose_logging cannot use unset argument
rpcbind: [ID 494153 daemon.alert] unable to get allow_indirect cannot use unset argument
I have tried looking at 'svcs -x'. With regards to rpc/bind, all services that it depends on have started and are online. Several services which depend on rpc/bind are offline because rpc/bind has not started and is in a maintenance state.
I have looked at the /var/svc/log/network-rpc-bind:default.log file but no entries were made. This is true for /etc/svc/volatile as well.
Any suggestions on what could be causing this problem?
Thanks,
Mike

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, the properties of my implementation of rpc/bind are the same.
However, I did discover the problem. I tried a pkgchk on the package that contains rpc/bind (SUNWcsr) and discovered that it had the wrong group settings. I checked /etc/group and the entry for the root group was incorrect, (this might have happened while I was converting the root account to a role). I corrected the entry and the service started without any problems.
Thanks again for the help.
Mike