R.I.P message from perfmeter
QUESTION:
I submitted the following message:
Greetings Gurus,
perfmeter is returning the message R. I. P. inside it's windows,
as weel as is drawing a lapidde (something like reminding a fune-
ral, I mean, some part of the machine has died). It isn't showing
any performance data anymore, thereafter.
It has happened in two Solaris 2.x machines, one with 2.4 (SS-10)
and other with 2.5.1 (Ultra 1). It started to happen, after configu-
ring those machines as NIS clients, where the server is a SS-10
SunOS 4.1.3 machine (even though I don't know if it ralated to the
fact).
I need to eliminate it. Would you help me?
THANKS:
My best aknowlegments to those who appeared with contributive/proac
tive answers and suggestions. They were:
1. gray, valerie" <valerie@facade.cc.bellcore.com>
2. Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon@excelsus.com>
3. Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services <Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au>
4. Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
SOLUTION:
My particular problem were solved by two actions:
#1: When a IP is put in a NIS or NIS+ plus map, without being update
by a make command, perfmeter becomes absolutely crazy, even in a
SunOS environment. So I verified all NIS maps (specially hosts)
and rebuilt them with make. This was enough to solve the solaris
2.5 machine problem.
#2: Due to a unknown reason, the daemon rpc.rstatd was either not
running, as well as not present in any startup shell. This were
the problem with the solaris 2.4 machine. To solve that, I put a
new line in the /etc/inetd.conf file (just calling rpc.rstatd),
and reboot the machine.
Renan Martins Baptista
PETROBRAS Research Centre
Exploitation Division - DIPLOT
Process & Transportation sector - SEPROT
Cidade Universitaria, qd 07, Ilha do Fundao
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - BRAZIL 21949-900
Phone : +55-21-598.6556/6935
Fax : +55-21-598.6796
E-mail :renan@cenpes.petrobras.gov.br
