Hello guru, we have E420 server after logging in to server using common desktop environment it will accept the username and password after 1 or 2 min again it will ask for login and password for my root account . in startover button i can select command line and login to the server. what ...

Hi All, I'm using one Sun Ultra 10 Server with Sun Solaris 5.8 isinstalled and it has been shutdown due to some power problems and thus it isnot booting and it's throwing error holding INIT:cannot create/var/adm/utmpxCan u guys plz tell me what is the solution for ...

Hello Managers, I want to install Sun Workshop 6(Forte Developer 6) on a sun enterprise 420R with solaris 9 operating system. I checked the relase notes, it seems like this version 6 doesn't support solaris 9. Has anyone successfully installed workshop 6 on Solaris 9? Thanks a lot in advanced, ...

One of our users has "done something" and now can no longer start Sun'sGnome 2.0 on their Sun Blade running Solaris 8. They login but then just geta black screen for a few seconds and then get returned to the DtLogin screen.They can login fine with CDE though.This is becoming ...

I'm seeing something from netstat that I don't understand.packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls 32136744 0 56716151 0 2490476 68777157 28 92928209 0 2554337152 0 267 0 0 330 0 444 0 1 This is on a ...

Please find the original problem at the bottom of this mail. Problem: One of sub mirror disks was under state "Needs Maintenance" Summary:1. metareplace or metareplace -e as suggested by the metastat was useless.2. metadetach-metattach were also failed.3. init s, umount the ...

Hi gurus, I have an e3500 system. Now root is not able to ftp from anyother system whereas other users are able to do so on to this e3500 system. Ihave checked the /etc/ftpusers file and root entry is hashed. Also i am ableto telnet to this e3500 system using root from other ...

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Hi fellow managers,Many thanks to all who responded to my problem, and especially to BobCummings, Nathan Dietsch, Johan Wilkstrvm David B. Harrington, Mike (atsky.net... ...don't know the last name!), Chuck (at yahoo.com, don't no yetthe last name!) and Daniel Buchner.Most of you directed me ...

Hello folks,I am about to purchase a new server with a raid storage system and I would like some advice to see if there are any many problems going for (S)ATA over SCSI.The system is going to be small system 1 server (V240/V250/V440) and 1 RAID box, since money is a problem I am considering a ...

Well, it's not a statistical survey (there are probably plenty who don't use it, don't know what it is, and didn't respond); but, of those who responded, it was unanimous -- Use it. Steven.Haywood -- telstra shashank -- Oklahoma State paul greidanus -- Univ Alberta CA William D. Hathaway -- ...

Dear Sun managers,I'm having two Seagate LTO-1 tape drives connected via SCSI to an E3500.The last couple of months I've started to get a lot of positioning errorsusing these tape drives. The most annyoing part about it is that it locksthe drive and I have to manually unload the cartridge and ...

Have searched google and cannot find the max size ide hardrives usable<br>with solaris-8 or solaris-9 intel. Have X-86 machine with 160G drives and<br>need to know if they will work under solaris intel.<p>Will summarize.<p>Ron Clark<br>Sysadm/Web Master<br>Armstrong Atlantic State University<br>

Hi, Sun ManagersI am facing one small problem in attaching the storage tosecond sun server (I want to share or make available this D1000 Storagebetween two Sun servers)Please find the output for device information of ourtwo sun serversPlease consider that main problem our case is ....We haveTwo ...

solaris 9 native ldap clients and 5.1 Sun ONE servers.I'm showing enormous number of connections (30000+ ) in TIME_WAIT stateon the clients with remote address being that of ldap server.I replicated this on 2 different sol9 machines that seem to have nousability problems at all. I can always ...

I need help in setup/configuring a ldap linux<br>server(openldap) with sun client authern.. to it...<p>can anyone help...<p>Jennifer<br>

All, I have a sun e450 with 4 400mhz and 4gb of Ram with 4 GBof swap on Solaris 8 rev27. For some reason when I logged into theserver to check on why a oracle cold backup was taking so long thesystem had 17 processes swapped out via vmstat. Even after stopping thebackup, shutting down oracle ...

no one responded to me on this, does anyone have any ideas?ive narrowed it down to where whenever i use veritas on the T4 san disks iget scsi errrors, the local disks work 100%.thanks in advance!Ev----------------first thanks for try to help me.can anyone tell me why im getting this error when ...

I am looking for some documentation on StorEdge 3310 (especially to find outthe details on hardware RAID.)I checked the sunsolve site: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/3310/3310.htmlCould not find any good documentation. Where else should I ...

All: I am trying to mirror my root filesystem to a second disk on a SunFire V480using Solaris 9. I created the state database replicas (as directed by mymany books). Then I created the RAID 0 volumes and the RAID 1 volume andattached the main submirror to the RAID 1 volume. I made a backup ...

Everyone, I have an E6500 that I recently added a fourth A1000 to. I dida drvconfig and all that good stuff. For whatever reasons the raid managersoftware did not automatically detect the added array. Does anyone know thecommand to tell the raid manager to detect and use the new ...

hi alli have problem with live upgrade to solaris 9.currently system use solaris 8 2/02 when i upgrade to solaris 9 withcommand luupgrade i got error that say : 1 package failed upgrade (SUNWcsr)and 93 package failed to install. and i can't activate that BE.currently system E3500 with OBP ...

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Stupid question, but whats the easiest way to close down the following ports on a machine running Solaris 9? -JohanPORT STATE SERVICE111/tcp open rpcbind898/tcp open sun-manageconsole4045/tcp open lockd6112/tcp open dtspc7100/tcp open font-service32774/tcp open sometimes-rpc1132775/tcp open ...

Hi, I own a SunFire V100 that makes a lot a of noise in my living room (andyes, I know I shouldn't have a V100 in my living room, but I bought it when I was "young" and f00l ;).I was wondering if I could replace the "noisy" fan with any of the"silent" Fan that can ...

Hi Managers!I've upgraded an Ultra 2 OBP to OpenBoot 3.11 using the script that comes withSolaris 8 2/02, I changed the J2003 to non-write protected, and the script ranperfectly.But then when I've rebooted the server it hangs at the "ok".I've found that if I type very quickly I'm ...

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Hi,How to find the man or info for a libraries in solaris.Ex: For the library "/usr/lib/libGL.so" how to find the info of this,such as for that this library used ? like that...Thanks-Dilip.M-- The message in this mail are under GNU General Public License ...

I have an Ultra10 machine (440Mhz, 256MB RAM, with Soalris 2.6), today inth morningi received the following message during normal system operation. this is themessage i have received, any help from someone?? Please.panic[cpu0]/thread=0x60607ba0: CPU0 Ecache SRAM Data Parity Error:AFSR: ...

G'day,I have a E250 with SunOS 5.8 installed and recently it has been consistentlyhanging after a certain period of uptime. Following is the errormessage I get before it hangs.WARNING: [AFT1] EDP event on CPU0 Instruction access at TL=0, errID 0x00001fc5On another E250 with the same ...

Hi all,The problem I have is as follows: a V880 connected, 2 Silkworm 3800,3510FC with 2 controllers in redundant mode. Solaris 9 installed. Theproblem is that configured and mapped LUNs do not show up in format.3510 FC have been configured with on Raid5 LUN, controllers are configured in ...

All, after the latest Solaris 8 Patch Upgrade the kernel states<br>117350-01, I cannot find any info on this kernel rev and the system was<br>upgraded from Kernel Rev 15.<p>Roland<br>

Hi AllI have a little conundrum which I hope someone can throw some light on.I have two Sol 6 systems (different versions of 6 which I am guessing isrelated to the problem).One is U60/450Mhz and the other a U10/333Mhz.All partitions are largefile mounted and I can create >2Gb files on ...

Trying to create some flar's with Solaris 8. I have a need to exclude about30 directories. I found a note on Sunsolve about a fix with 109318-34 for excluding multipledirectories with -x... For some reason that isn't working for me. It still continues to includethem. Any suggestions? Jeremy ...

1. I have a solaris laptop that waits for a CDROM that was ejected early andit just sits there waiting for /vol to read the cd. How do I turn the waittime down?2. How do I turn the timeout down for a network mounted directory that is attimes not present during startup?Thanks to you all.Solaris ...

THANKS A LOT to WILLIAM and DALE...You were right , the /etc/shells file did not have an entry of the root shell.Once that was entered the ftp worked.Once again thanks a lot.RegardsSS-----Original Message-----From: Sudesh Shetty (WI01 - Services)Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:25 PMTo: ...

Greeting Gurus:Background:Recently my beloved Solaris 9 Ultra 10 server bit the dust. :(I re-installed the OS from the May 2002 CDs then used some SunFreewarepackages to bring my server back up to speed.When I noticed that some programs (ie: nmap) was relying on the'missing' stdlibc++ ...

Hello Managers.I've been dragging my heals on Live Upgrade for a long long time and I now feel its usable in a production environment. However, many Sun systems only have 2 disks provisioned for root disks. Currently I'm using 2 disks per system mirrored via VxVM or SVM. Because I've ...

I have a ultra axi system which im not getting any output from. upon powering up the keyboard lights flash once & the usual beep is heard,there is no progress after that, the system doesnt start the diag process & nothing is outputed to the display or serial console.I think the mobo is ...

Hi Gurus,I have Sun Solaris 8 (US English). I want to have support for other languagesas well such as Portuguese character set.Say I need to create a folder with Portuguese character set name "gcq " itdoesn't work.My .profile is set toNLS_NCHAR=UTF8NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8I ...

Hi all,I was using fsirand on a Solaris 9 server. Its man page said that if youused this on the root filesystem then you should reboot immediatlyafterwards, so I brought the system to single user mode and ran this:[root at gate]root$ fsirand /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0[root at gate]root$ reboot -- ...

Hello,Using Jumpstart, how can I configure it so that whenit partitions the drive, have it specifically usecylinder0 for the / partition? Heres' what my profile currently looks like:install_type initial_installsystem_type standalonepartitioning explicitfilesys rootdisk.s0 ...

I need to wipe the data off several disks prior to them being removed.I have not found a tool that I like and I am wondering what solutionsother people are using.I am currently using wipe 2.2.0 from SourceForge. It works, but it requiresyou to have a ufs installed on the disk and then it wipes ...

Hi all,I was told by my boss to put netcool in to our current jumpstartconfiguration.so I went ahead and I did some search on google, and it seems like I can1.) create my own sun package of it and add a line in profile like: package NameOfMyPackage addOr2.) I can put a install script in to the ...

Hi,Our Sun Raptor firewalls have to run a hardened Solaris 7 - as a result,some tools like volcheck is not there & even vold is not automaticallystarted in the Solaris 7 startup scripts anymore.Appreciate if someone can tell me (step by step instructions) on how toput back volcheck & ...

G'day All,I have a sun server (E250) with openssh-3.7.1p2 installed. The machine restarts automatically when Issh into the machine (after a long period of idle time). I have alsoconfigured telnet and ftp on the machine but they seems to work fine.My gutt feeling is that prngd is what causing ...

Hi -I am looking for advice as to the safest way to fixa partially installed patch (109134-29). For details see the patch log below.(The reason this patch failed to install completely is thatwe had /var/sadm as a link and this was removed during themiddle of this patch installation.)I think ...

Dear managers,Connected to a remote host (hence using an Ultra 1 running Solaris 9 as an xserver), I'm having a problem using with logging out from CDE:- When I first click the Exit button to logout + confirming it, nothinghappens. Windows I open at this stage will have a different ...