E3500 2.6Over the last 2 months we have had repeated problems with the boot disk onthis machine.It will slowly freeze up progressively not allowing functions like 'ls' andthen refuse to shutdown.In particular, the last 2 times this happened, if you tied to do a 'ls' of/var/spool/mqueue it ...

I have a U60 that dies on boot with the following error:++++++++START ERROR+++++++++panic[cpu0]/thread=7091dd60: Can't invoke /etc/init, error 240067c20 genunix:icode+25c (ffbeffe8, 0, 0, 7091bd48, ffffffff, ffbefff4) %l0-7: ffbefff4 10031154 00000001 4008fe40 00000bb8 00000000 ...

Help!!! I need the format.dat entry for the newQuantum Viking VK45J05 4.2 GB SCSI drive 80 pin SCA2(Sun part number is 370-2809)When I tried to format it in my ULtra 1 runningSolaris 8it says drive type unknown.I already looked at the master format.dat (v 2.57)dated 2003/03/11 ...

Hello all,I have many identical disks, part of an A5000 disk array... Seagate Cheetah36GB... when I do format, and verify, the disk label is SUN36G... One ofthese disks failed, so we purchased a new one, a used-new one :), actuallytwo of them...Now when I try to format them, because luxadm says ...

Hi everyone,Got only one reply to my question, from Joe Fletcher (thanks).I'm trying to get a more up-to-date firmware from quantum now.Joe Fletcher wrote:>Could be wrong but the "SGI" label suggests that is your >problem. If the unit is actually SGI branded then the ...

Hello,I have a problem with our Sun-Server (SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4usparc SUNW, Sun-Fire-280R).Wenn I try to transfer files from another or the same network to this serverit takes a long time AND during oracle database import I got an internal buserror.I checked the alert.log file of ...

Hi managersWe currently run oracle 8 in a number of locations, in HA cluster, usinga shared NFS volume running on a NetApp.We have tried using the same configuration in a new site, replacing theNetApp with an E450 running NFS. Oracle won't start, reporting ORA-0600errors. A search on Oracle's ...

Hi folks,while trying to run the Legato Networker nsrjb command (as a non root user)on aSolaris 2.8 box I see the following error:nsrjb: You are not authorized to run this commandN.B. Even If the nsrjb command is given SUID permissions it willstill now work. Giving the user admin rights (via ...

Hi,<br> <br>no reason why (sure, otherwise I wouldn't post here) but my Jumpstart server<br>does not automatically reboot a new client after its installation completed.<br> <br>Where do I start looking for any reason ?<br> <br>TIA<br> <br>Rob<br>

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Dear all,Do you know about this messages ?Regards,===================================================Jun 25 23:13:29 ms1 unix: WARNING: [AFT1] WP event on CPU0, errID0x000a52a2.24f3553f^MJun 25 23:13:29 ms1 unix: AFSR 0x00000000.00800004<WP> AFAR0x000001fe.01800f00^MJun 25 23:13:29 ...

Thanks to : Justin Stringfellow who gave me full explanation of theproblem; here is his mail2 warnings are raised:CPU0 first, it fails writing data back to cache, the parity check failson the data being written back - this is known as a writebackparity or "WP" event:Jun 25 23:13:29 ...

I wrote:>I've lost all ability to have pressed/held keys repeat in all X windows>apps--xterm, dtterm, Netscape, CDE mail. That is, pressing and holding 'x'>should generate "xxxxxxxxxxxx". Carries over into text editing with 'vi'>and pretty much everything. All keys ...

Hello all,I'd like to know if there is some way to increase themouse pointer size whithout having to change theresolution.A user wants to use a high resolution, which in turnlets the cursor small.I looked in all CDE customization options but Icouldn't find a way.Thanks in advance.Ligia ...

Hi all, Got a quick question about st.conf. How do you verify that yourtape drive loaded in the settings within st.conf? i.e. If you typed in"Compaq SLT" did that take or should you have had a few more spaces. Ican't seem to find any documentation on how to check that?Thanks and ...

Dear ALL,I am not able to remote login thruugh CDE .I am getting a hour glasssymbol and it hangs.the same thing was working until we applypatch level KUP-20(solaris 8).Normalyy in one machine we can see only one ttsession process.but here I see around 40 ttsession process.Any clues...i am not ...

When I try & "boot net - install" the jumpstart client, theinstallation on the client, is not non-interactive. Does anyone have any idea whether there is something wrong with myconfiguration, or is there a trick that I have missed, to allow for anon-interactive client install ? I ...

Currently are backup strategy consists of using ufsdump from two 280Rservers to connect to remote tape drives on 2 E250 servers. The DDS3tape drives in the E250's are now getting a bit small for our needs, andwe plan to replace them with a HP DDS4, 8 tape, auto-loading DAT drive.I was ...

Managers,Good day to all. We have an EMC Clariion CX-400 connected to twoSUN-Fire 480R boxes - one runs Oracle server and uses LUN 0 on EMC,another performs as NFS server and uses LUN 1 on the EMC. Now - since some time ago the EMC started doing weird things - bypassedLUNs between SPs, failed ...

Thank you to everyone who responded... I think almost everyone agreed that Iprobably will not need to worry about the network. Everyone seemed to givemore information that will hopefully allow me to make the best decision.Thanks again.ORIGINAL POST:Problem:Netbackup Datacenter 4.5 trying to ...

One person this morning did a rm * on / partition with user root. After thatno one can login to the server this person logoff before notifying us whathe did.The problem was that no one has access to ksh because in the / partitionthere is a link that was removed:#pwd/#ls -l binlrwxrwxrwx 1 ...

..snip..Marques, Virginia said: (snip...)no one has access to ksh because ...sadly... they had a LINK between ksh andwhere it was...UGH!Mitch Sez:THERE's a REASON they suggest not using ksh as your primary (root) shell.That could be why!However..I simply COPY ksh to /sbin (DONT link it!!)then, ...

Hi Admins, We are using OpenSSH version 3.0.1.p1 and are trying to allow authentication via Public-key authentication but can't seem to get it to work. I generated the key pair by doing:# ssh-keygen -t rsa1which created the files ~/.ssh/identity and ~/.ssh/identity.pub I then copied ...

Hi all,Upgraded my Ultra-60 from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9. I have a SunPCi card running Win2000 in the Ultra-60. After the upgrade I can not get the sunpci to boot up. When I start the pci the window pops up Opening a SunPCi window..... Starting Windows. At this point the window pops up for the ...

Hello,I configured my cgsix sbus card at resolution 1024x768x60HzI can use it perfectly with a Sony Multiscan G420instead if I Attach a Acer AL707 LCD monitor,I can't see nothing.I use a converter to convert output from cgsix plug to VGA plug and itworks with the Sony monitor but I Cannot see ...

Addition,a Cisco 2514 router with 14 serial ports acts as a terminal server.With telnet <ip> 2001 .. 2014 I can access all ports.I use a cisco rollover cable which works fine to connect to mostconsoles.At least it works for Netra, Sun220R and v210 and v240.All port settings on terminal ...

Voila, case solved.The reason why the Jumpstart program on the new client is not automaticallyrebooting this client after the post-install script (as it is intended to doin normal behaviour), is because this post-install script generated someerrors from its internal commands. Even when such ...

Dear maagers,Thanks to all (too many to list the names) that responded to my question: I finally got the problem solved by soldering together the following null modem cable on my own.9 PIN SuB D female <-----------------------> 25 PIN SuB D malePin 2 --------------------------- Pin 2Pin ...

Hi GurusI have a report in simple text file as followsThis is 1st test file with 543563 numbersThis is 2nd test file with 345212 numbersThis is 3rd test file with 989834 numbersThis is 4th test file with 543563 numbersThis is 5th test file with NULL numbersThis is 1st test file with 743455 ...

Hello,<p>Is there any way to make cron use UTC time without resetting the system<br>timezone?<p>Thanks,<br>Rob Helmer<br>

Thanks to Jay Lessert. I have confirmed this to be the case.-----Original Message-----From: Jay Lessert [mailto:jayl at accelerant.net] Sent: June 26, 2003 1:13 PMTo: Marco GreeneSubject: Re: Verifying st.confOn Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:26:51AM -0400, Marco Greene wrote:> Hi all,> Got a ...

Can someone please tell me the default packet size for solaris 8 ?<br>Is there a kernel parameter I can tune for this?<br>what is the min and max? are there advantages to one size over the others?<p>thanx in advance!<br>

Thanks to Marcelino Matahere's the work around to make the SunPCi version 1.3 work with Solaris 9# cd /opt/SUNWspci/drivers/solaris# ln -s /opt/SUNWspci/drivers/solaris/sunpcidrv.280 sunpcidrv.290# ln -s /opt/SUNWspci/drivers/solaris/sunpcidrv.280.64 sunpcidrv.290.64# vi $HOME/pc/SunPC.ini ...

Dear managers,I am trying to setup disk mirroring on a SunFire 280R with two 36GByte FC-AL disks. I followed the instructions in "Configuring Boot Disks With Solstice DiskSuite Software" and " http://www.slacksite.com/solaris/disksuite/disksuite.html". I can boot from the ...

I am trying to boot from Gigabit ethernet interface.I did:nvalias net3 /pci at 1f,0/pci at 2/pci at 7/pci at 3/ethernet at 0nvstorereset-allboot net3then i am getting message: can't open boot deviceI thought that this path might not be correct, but i was able to follow thispath using cd ...

Hi! I'm trying to setup an automatic Solaris 8 packages installation onJumpStart.I created:# vi nocheck--- snip snip ---mail=rootinstance=overwritepartial=nocheckrunlevel=nocheckidepend=nocheckrdepend=nocheckspace=asksetuid=nocheckconflict=nocheckaction=nocheckbasedir=default--- snip snip ---I ...

Hi,after further troubleshooting I found out that luckily thehardware is not the culprit !!! There simply was no fault ;-)Well .. the machines are so blindingly fast, that theyreached my last postinstall script with an "init 6"statement, that the serial interface was not quick ...

Thanks to everyone who replied!<p>The "TZ" variable just needs to be set before cron is invoked, by e.g.<br>editing /etc/init.d/cron and adding :<p>TZ=UTC<br>export TZ<p>At the top, and restarting cron using the init script.<p>Thanks,<br>Rob Helmer<br>

First Thanks to Hichael Morton for suggesting to reinstall the boot blockwith installboot. I tried that but it did not change the situation.I have done some more digging and experimenting ...I still get the same Can't invoke /etc/init, error 2 - which, according toSun, means that /etc/init is ...

THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO REPLIED.Whilst there doesn't seem to be any solid information on where the DACstoreis stored on the disk, Tony from Sun has offered lots of advice on addingdisks to arrays:o Quickest 3 way: Hot-Add the disks once at a time (takes 2-3 mins per drive).Wait until the LED ...

We have purchased a Sun SAN (SANbox switches and T3 Arrays) and the Sun QFS filesystem. We do not have any of theSAM stuff (archiving) just the filesystem.What I would really like is to find someone else who has worked with these and exchange some email. I will post asummary to the list.I ...

Hi,I am trying to install some network printers using the Sun Management Console 2.1 on Solaris 9. I have tried installing Lexmarks Markvision Software (and drivers) and HP's hpnpl software but both I am having trouble with (we have HP, Lexmark and Tektronix printers which are all TCP ...

Dear Sun gurus,I am having problem trying to copy the content of my tape to my hard disk.1) First I did a "drvconfig"2) reboot -- -r3) I did a "mt st" and got the follwing output:Archive Python 4mmHelical Scan tape drive: Sense key ( 0x0 ) = No Additional Senseresidual= 0 ...

Im having some trouble connecting a compaq MSL5026 tape library to a SunE420R. I cant get probe-scsi-all to show the device(s). I have read thefollowing summary, and the links it contains, I have found useful but Imstill ...

Although it was not my problem a very good explanation came from"Parkes, Lloyd" <lloyd.parkes at eds.com> what can cause jumpstartto break, by redirecting the postinstall script output to a log file.%-------------------------------------------------------------------------From: ...

9 Out of officeThank you very much to every one who take a minute to respond my mail (inorder of appearance):Steve MaherBruntel, Mitchell (not very constructive ;-))Hichael MortonCarl MaRichard MarkhamDavorin BengezMario WilliamsKris BriscoeDarren DunhamDavid MarkovitzEugene SchmidtBrett ...

Dear managers,please excuse me asking again. Installing Solstice DiskSuite on a fresh SunFire 280R went fine following the instructions in the documentation. If I only could boot from the mirror so that I know I am ready for a disk failure. "boot disk0" does work. "boot ...

Hi Admins, Thanks for all of the answers from:Pavic, AleksanderRomande CarterDarren DunhamSteven HawoodHarvey WamboldtEd RolisonScott Croft Special thanks goes to Scott Craft and Steven Hawood.Scott wrote:The first thing I would do is verify that your root user has the propergroup. Looks ...

is it safe to put a 25Kg SONY monitor on top of my ultra 2 desktop ?<p>I have found no infoes about this topic around<p>sorry<p>thanks<p>Rick<br>

OK. Thanks to all who've proved me absolutely wrong about COPYing ksh to/sbin(wont work since still dependencies in /usr/lib.Here goes last question about dependencies, and unused dependencies:What would happen if I take the dependencies shown by LDD and copy them into/sbin too?(a: ...