Greetings...We have Sun-Fire-V440 and Sun-Fire-V240 with Solaris 9. Will you please advise what the required Patch number and required Server Firmware for Time zone Changes for above servers. Appreciate your assistance. Thanks, Best regards,sehpur

Hi,How can I know whether my Shared Object is of 32 bits or of 64 bits?

HiI try to download x86: Solaris Express, Developer Edition. Occur following error: "Error: Transaction stopped. The selected product(s) cannot be provided to your location."

Hi everyone, can someone please help me troubleshoot the patch install problem. I am getting the following error when installing the DST patch on solaris 5.8# patchadd /var/spool/patch/109809-05Patch directory /var/spool/patch/109809-05 does not exist.Usage: patchadd [-u] [-d] [-B ...

Have disk with vxfs volume and cant mount it, how to add vxfs (fsck, mount) to Solaris 10. Thanks

Hello,I just downloaded the Solaris 10 O/S and burned it to a CD to install it. However, I need help on installing it and setting up my hard drive and bios for dual booting. How do I do that?I have seen that Fedora 6 has a partitioning program to automatically resize and partition the hard ...

hi,I am doing remote ufsdump ( SunOS 5.8, sparc, UltraAX-i2) backup on my sun server (SunOS 5.9, Sun-Fire-V440, Sparc) every day night at 02AM. Backup is taking longer time to complete and its getting completed 2.92% in 8 hours SO i had to abort the backup every morning.DUMP: Writing 32 ...

hi,I am doing remote ufsdump ( SunOS 5.8, sparc, UltraAX-i2) backup on my sun server (SunOS 5.9, Sun-Fire-V440, Sparc) every day night at 02AM. Backup is taking longer time to complete and its getting completed 2.92% in 8 hours SO i had to abort the backup every morning.DUMP: Writing 32 ...

hi allI'm totally new to Solaris & I've just installed Solaris 10 11/06 on Dell 9150 (x86). I tried to install Sun Studio 11 & JRE 5.0 update 11 & even with instructions / README file I couldn't installed any of 'em.in case of Sun Studio 11 it said, "To install the Sun Studio ...

Have a two node cluster on v240, S10. Having problems with cluster seeing the interconnect cables. They are crossover cables on qfe's (old stuff I know, this is lab environment). Anyway the first node is up and fine just can't get the second node to join the cluster. I have tried manual ...

Folks, I am attempting to use an IBM USB CD Drive (USB 2.0) on a SunFire V215, and I keep getting error messages "Device is gone". According to some documentation I found, it was said that the device is fully supported on Solaris 10 but needs a patch for 9 and lower.IBM USB 2.0 CD-RW/DVD-ROM ...

using vxtools can mount disk using prtvtoc.But using vx volume manager - cant mount, fsck etc.what is the problem.

How do I configure a user account so the he has access to only one directory and can only read the files in that directory. In other words when he logs in he should automatically be dumped into the specified directory and not have the permissions to move to another directory.

I have seen couple files under /lost+found directory. Can I go ahead delete them? Will system have any problems when it reboots?Thanks.G Fix

How does the the SunCluster 3.1 HA for OracleServer start the database?Does it an su oracle and then the equivalent ofsqlplus /nologconnect / as sysdbastartupAnd how do I change resource settings for Oracle under Solaris 10, specially max-shm-memory. I had once problems with setting it via a ...

hi,Can anyone suggest a website/article that describes development and description/role of doors in UNIX or Solaris... the files starting with dr-xr--r--

Dear Experts ,We have installed the below patches for Day Light Savings.OS: Solaris 9Hardware: Sun Fire v240Patches: 113225-07, 112874-33.These patches were successfully applied.How to make sure the day light savings patches will work.Is there any patches need to install other than these ...

I have a Sun T2000, Solaris 10 6/06, Emulex HBA (SUNW,emlxs-pci10df,fc00 LP10000-S), Xiotech SAN attached disks, patched with all the latest patches (which is the reason I am having problems). My system is booted from the SAN, not the internal disks.When I apply patch 118833-36 the system will ...

hi everyone here is how I fixed my dual boot & internet connectivity failure problems. I'm explaining in detail to help any Solaris newbie (like me) having same problems: ( as I didn't find any REAL Help thru Sun Help Documents / Pages )My special thanx to " Phil Brown " ( who helped me ...

Hello,I need some help with the following configuration:Dell 850 with Intel D940 (3.2 ghz dual core), 1 gig RAM, 2 80 gig SATA drivesNorco DS-1220 external SATA enclosure ( http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=12&modelno=ds1220)Sil3124 4-port SATA card ...

i have a compact flash card withe ide converter that I would like to install solaris on/First attempt failed. So I installed FreeBSD, just to get an idea if it was possible to run & boot os from card. All OK.Re-attempt at Solaris install. it fails after I have done network config with a ...

A friend recommended that I update the bios and drivers on my ultra 20 m2 (A88-GGZ1-AA-2GBGA), that runs Solaris 10 11/06, to get rid of some excessive fan noise.I downloaded the tools_and_drivers 1.5 disk and updated the bios. This solved my noise problem, but I think the driver update screwed ...

Dear all i have sun cluster 3.1 running in failover mode. one resource group is created with filesystem and logical ip to failover to other node etci want to use GDS to start/stop and monitor mysql service , according to documentation only Start_command and Port_list needs to be defined. i want ...

Hi all,where can I find a complete list of all possible keywords for the sysidcfg file using a jumpstart server?I want to set up a Solaris 10-11.06 x86 on a Dell gx240; the installation should run in text mode, but with my sysconfig file there's always coming up a request about the display, ...

I dosnt know how install Solaris 10in these station, please help me

Attempting to install Solaris on a laptop. The first CD went fine. The second CD failed about 70% through. Redownloaded and burnt the second disk, though I can't get it to reattempt the second disk install - it wants to go straight to 3, which, even when I put that in, does not recognize it as ...

I am running SC 3.2 on a pair of E420Rs with Solaris 10 11/06,is it possible to fail a zone over between cluster nodes? I am kinda under the impression that it is, but I cant seem to find a good example.plz help

hi,I am new to O/S rac. I have two SunFire V240 servers and one StorEdge 3300 storage device. I want to build a two node RAC using Sun solaris 10, Sun cluster and Oracle 10gR2 on the above hardware.Can anybody let me know, how to network the servers with the storage device. Is there any other ...

Is there any way that the applications window would stick to the workspace from which it was invoked, rather than popping to the current workspace?I am using "SunOS ferrari 5.10 Generic i86pc i386 i86pc" and facing problem that the script that was started at "workspace 1" is invoking its GUI ...

All,Is there any link from we can find out which is the latest kerenel pacth level for Solaris 8 ?I have checked in 8_Recommended.README but it is not there.RegardsCenoce

Special thanks for the article "Sun PPPoE on Solaris" by Phil Dibowitz and "Setting Up Solaris OS to Work with Cable Modems" by Muhammad Talha (I have DSL however). Without these 2 articles I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.First off I'm running on an AMD CPU with Realtek 8139 PCI plug ...

hello gurus!I use a sparc sunfire 4810 and solaris8. I tried to configure the network interfaces qfe0 and qfe1 in order to access our LAN. I assigned the ip address in /etc/hosts file and created the required hostname.qfe* files also. I brought the interface up and I got the message "10Mbps ...

I have the default factory install, and yet the screensaver doesn't work, and I have 37 patches listed that fail to install in Update Manager. Can someone please tell me why this is? I'm using Sun's OS on Sun's hardware, and still have issues?Thanks.

Has anybody heard anything about when patches are applied to SUn5.9 and having adverse affects interfaces not coming up after reboot.I had a outage this morning due to the reboot of my application servers and the from root: ifconfig bge0:2 downwe had to turn this up..Any ...

Does anyone know if i can install ANY hard drive into an Ultra 10 or does it have to be proprietary Sun hardware?

Hi,After bringing a bunch of Sparc servers running Solaris 10 up to current patch level I've been experiencing strange and unstable behavior. All servers are running with an ipfilter configuration.One server has been freezing on the network interface at least once every day without any syslog ...

the installation hang on the "discovering additional network configuration..."

Can anyone tell what does this error message means?Thanks for any feedback at all...:-)Feb 18 11:17:55 oracle unix: WARNING: /sbus@2,0/QLGC,isp@2,10000/sd@5,1 (sd178):^M^MFeb 18 11:17:55 oracle unix: Error for Command: read(10)Error Level: RetryableFeb 18 11:17:55 oracle unix: Requested Block: ...

Dear All,MY sun server, SunFire 280 with UltraSPARC-III, installed with OS 8, is working at the temperature sometimes over 90 C. It is automatically down when it reaches the Die temperature which is 90 C. I wnat to know how to reset the Die temperature. regaerdsvlsi

Trying to install Solaris 10 on my PC and get the above message from Grub.Grub starts up and I pick Solaris as the install option, I then get the error message as above..on checking the command it showskernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdromI'm using the DVD iso image.I can ...

Hi all,My client has a cluster 3.1 of two V440 of Solaris9. I have the various contradictory opinions of the SUN's support people of how can I upgrade this cluster (only for a 9_Recommended patch-set).Can I apply an upgrade one node then other one? or I have to schutdown all the cluster and ...

I've set-up a two-node Sol 10 11/06 cluster (fully patched, including 120986-10, 121010-05, 124916-02, and 124918-02) and included the DHCP HA agent. I don't have shared storage, so I'm using a quorum server on another Sol 10 server. I've gone through the cluster configuration process, and ...

Hi,I would like to run Sun Cluster 3.2 because it works with ZFS (Solaris 11/06 x86). Is it possible to install the actual Version of Java Enterprise System (2005Q4 which comes with an older SC Version) on a machine already running SC 3.2. I tried to do that but the installation failed, so I ...

i purchased a server sunfire x2100.i used its hard drive in different machine.Now to install solaris in this server i.e sunfirex2100 . I installed a harddisk from HP computer. Hence it is SATA hard drive of Samsung with model nos. SP0411c.Now during installation the error comes "NO hard disk ...

Even though syslogd is running , i don't see any trace statements/log messages when my application is running on solaris 9. The entries in syslog.conf are perfect as I used to see/get log messages/trace statements till now with the same entries ....

Hi.I have a V480 machine with Solaris 9 installed. In this machine I have 100 users registered.I need to transfer this 100 users to a new server (T2000 with Solaris 10).I need to transfer the user and passwords to the new server.Copying /etc/password and /etc/shadow solves the problem?Or only ...

We have installed an LSI LOGIC 7202XP Fibre channel card into a V240. The drivers are installed and seen in the syslog on boot. cfgadm shows the controllers as unconfigured and we cannot get them to switch to configured with the "cfgadm -c configure c3" command. Any idead appreciated.

I am trying to Install Solaris 10 on MS Virtual PC 2007 and it hangs at the licensing screen. I tried a couple of fixes that are posted but to no avail. I tried the -kdv switch but have the same issue. Any suggestions?Thanks

I downloaded the 5 DVD files for Solaris 9 for X86. I unzipped each of them. The question is how do I get them on a DVD?

I've installed Synergyc (client side app) on my Solaris 10 X86 box. My server is an XP machine. Synergy works great but I'm unable to get in configured for autostart on my Solaris box. I've ran through all the documentation I can find on how to do it and it just won't autostart for me. I ...