Dear all Is there is any document regarding Patches and firware level required before installing sun cluster , i havent found any specfic info about patches /Firware in sun cluster 3.1/3.2 release notes ,Thanks Regards

Hello guys..CAn anyone tell me what are the patches that need to be installed for my Solaris 10 SPARC machine ?..I looked up on Sunsolve site ( 122032-01 or later and libc patch 119689-07 or later) , when i read them it says they are OBSOLETE.., not sure what that means ..anywhy..can any one ...

I have Solaris 9 installed on E420R server. It has oracle DB and Application server running. This server behind firewall and only selective ports are opened to access application from Internet. Recently I found some suspicious files and process running on system. It looks my server has been ...

Is it possible to download Sun (sparc) patches through a Windows system? We have 1 Solaris box to DST patch it only has connectivity to the internal manufacturing network, not to the internet, plus, remote firewall (which we have no control over) disallows FTP access.We have downloaded unix tar ...

Hi,Is there any way to turn off thread preemption on Solaris 9?I want to prevent my application thread from being swapped out.-Richard

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to add -t and -m60 option to syslogd on solaris 10. Thanks,Boon

Hi - I have some machines that are difficult to schedule downtime on, and am wondering if I can manually stop/start processes that are affected by 113225-08 and 112874-33 patches so that I could apply them without rebooting.Is this possible?Thanks very much for the ...

Hi all,I currently using solaris 10 x86. I installed audio driver oss. when i give osstest I am getting following error*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): Intel HD Audio play-front output- Device busy (opened by PID 0/VMIX)*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ...

Dear All,I have find out some network failure and errors in the massage files.error in message files:Mar 7 05:59:15 QZMain in.mpathd[44]: [ID 594170 daemon.error] NIC failure detected on ce2 of group OAM_NEMar 7 05:59:15 QZMain in.mpathd[44]: [ID 832587 daemon.error] Successfully failed over ...

Hi All,I tried to setup a Sun Cluster 3.2 (2x T2000) with an EMC AX 150 Storage. the device paths are highly instable and breaking down time and again. Tried to install Powerpath software of EMC but this time the did-devices are not recognized by Sun Cluster.Any help will be appriciated.P.S: ...

HiWe are using Solaris 2.9I am getting following error message when attmepting to do a 64bit make of one of our components. ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_H44: file lib/chmod.o: symbol errno: relocations based on the ABS44 coding model can not be used in building a shared objectThe final ...

Is there a way to test the DST patches I just applied?

Hi,I have applied the DST patch 113225-08, however, after the reboot normal users cannot login.Only the root user can login.Has anyone seen this problem or advise on how to find out where the problem is?I tried to backout 113225-08 but get the error:# patchrm 113225-08Checking installed ...

Hi -When I use memcmp() function in Solaris 10 i386, it does not seem to work. When I convert the arguments to strings and then use strcmp, they seem to work fine. Is there something I am missing. The same code with memcmp etc works fine on Solaris 10 SPARC machines.Your help and pointers will ...

Hi,If this is not the right place, Please direct me to the right one. I wish to know the hard disk magic number whether I'm getting 0xDABE or not. Could you specify the location where these details can be found bcoz I'm new to the Solaris environment. Suppose if I'm getting the disk magic ...

This isn't worth my time, seriously."The most advanced operating system on the planet" can't even install on a machine that's had almost every other popular x86 Operating System installed/running on it (Linux, Windows 2k/XP, FreeBSD). I cannot remember the last time that I felt like I've ...

I am working with an application which, in some circumstances, unfortunately creates a very large number of threads (on the order of 1000s), which wait across a large number of pthread conditions (on the order of 100s). As these circumstances are transient, the system eventually ends up with a ...

Does any know if there are API's available at the driver level for AES encryption/decryption? I found a reference to the cryptographic framework on one of the forums but no reference to DDI interfaces. I am looking to use these under Solaris 10 on x86 and sparc.

I am writing an application in C on a SUN T1 machine running Solaris 10. I compiled my application using cc in Sun Studio 11.In my code I allocate a large array on the heap. I then initialize every element in this array. When the array contains up to about 2 million elements, the performance is ...

I磛e come accross some problem here which I cant solve, so I hope I磎 right here and someone can help.- OS is Solaris 9 which runs on a Sunfire Server.- This machine is used as Proxy, Firewall and VPN Gateway.One one Interface it has a fixed IP as Internet connection, this comes from a bigger ...

I am trying to map a network connection that can be seen with netstat -a to a process, but lsof and rpcinfo don't show any matches. snoop shows plenty of nfs traffic taking place to the port. Automounter is running so perhaps it is making things difficult. Any suggestions?<host># uname ...

Just received my Solaris 10 DVD package in the mail;during the boot process to go into the installation process, it hangs no matter what you select in GRUBthis is the screen (when selecting to boot 'Solaris') in which it hangs...- --SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-33 32-bitCopyright ...

Hi, I just to searched on the Internet but I couldn't find a complete answer for this. Could someone compare the following backup methods?- dd- cpio- tar- ufsdump- ufsdump on a fssnapS.

Hello I'm new to Solaris.I tried to add the DST patches to my testing machine but I got the message that one or more packages are missing. I read the log file of one of the patches and I added the SUNWcar.xSUNWmdbSUNWmdbxSUNWcpr.mI did init 6, and since then my machine is in a continuous loop ...

on a sun fire 240 with 4 drivers (68 GB) running solaris 9. i am able to create slices (using format cmd) of 50/40/.. sizes. After i run newfs ( create file system) and mount, the effective space after mounting is only 30 GB ( from df -k command).please let me know if we have any restrictions? ...

Well I finally got Solaris 10 installed after doing a little looking and finding out that my graphics card was unsupported, but the onboard card was :)I installed it, booted up, started using it - and the power went out.Now the system is trashed, and cannot be booted.Will the next version of ...

hi, (i post this problem under maildrop maillist too) im tried to install maildrop undeo solaris 10, but i receive the following error (first i run ./configure): # make install Making install in numlib Making install in liblock Making install in unicode Making install in rfc822 make install-am ...

After installaing the latest recommended patch cluster (10_x86_Recommended for Solaris 10), pdf files which could be viewed using xpdf before applying the patch, are now screwed up. it seems the fonts are broken in some way. anybondy an idea what went wrong.Regards

Does anyone know the ramifications of using MD devices vice DID devices for clustering. I am doing an assessment on some systems that are using md devices for the disks instead of DID devices. I have never seen this before. Thanks.

First off, I apologize for posting in the Solaris 9 forum, but there is no forum for 8.Now to my problem.I am trying to apply the patch for daylight saving time to my Solaris 8 system (I know, I'm cutting things a little close but....)Anyway, I'm not having any (good) luck.My problems are ...

I've tried the "Solaris 10 OS, AMD x64 Platform - Solaris Enterprise System Virtual Machine for VMware (Solaris 10 11/06) 3.0". I've d/l the virtual appliance for vmware one can find from there : http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solaris_apps/index.jsp#vmwareI encountered 2 problems ...

I have 1 global zone and 11 normal zones.I have my root and swap mirrored using svm and I have a zfs mirrored on another partition....Looks like this....c1d0s0 / -> c2d0s0 / (25GB SVM Mirror)c1d0s1 swap -> c2d0s1 swap (2GB SVM Mirror)c1d0s4 zones -> c2d0s4 zones (245GB ZFS Mirror)I ...

Try to compile perl module for cache/mmap, can't find mmap() function installed. Please help how to install mmap() or which patch do I need it. thanks.

Does anyone know anything about running AFS with Sun Cluster? My plan to is to use an external shared disk array, then use ZFS on it. The AFS server would run inside a Solaris Container stored on the array. When one server fails, the other would pick up, boot the crashed container, and restart ...

I have tried to install solaris 10 for x86, i choose interactive installation and later appears to me can't find to driver for console to framebuffer, and i have to shutdown my computer because the installation stops.

I had two patched Sun boxes that failed to switch this morning. This was weird since all the others worked right.Turned out that the TZ entry in /etc/TIMEZONE has TZ= EST5EDTInstead of TZ=US/EasternAll the ones that worked had the former.I changed the two and rebooted them and they now work ...

Hi,I've installed wine 0.9.25.When I start wine I get the following error:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": ld.so.1: /opt/cfw/wine/bin/wine: fatal: libXau.so.6: open failed: No such file or directoryApplication tried to create a window, but no ...

Hi all,I want to install Solaris 10 x86 on HDD connected to motherboard-integrated HPT370/372 RAID controller. I use no RAID functionality of the controller.The problem is that Solaris cannot see my disk.Can anyone help me with workaround to this?Best regards!

Is there any special setup involve? I am new to Chinese settings. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Guys,For the Sol Recommend Cluster patch, there is 3 kernel patchses,112233-12 SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch117171-17 SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch118558-39 SunOS 5.9: Kernel PatchWhat the different on the above? and why we need it 3 of them.? Regards

hia solaris 10 newbiehow can I add swap space to /tmpthank you

Hi, storage-based data replication still seems to be a challange, even in SC 3.2. I found this link http://blogs.sun.com/SC/entry/sun_cluster_3.2,_truecopy,_and which includes the following "Previously(...before SC3.2...) , only Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) could be used with Sun Cluster and ...

I've got custom jumpstart working with Solaris 10 on x86 with PXE Boot. However, I need the servers to shutdown completely after installation and not reboot. Maybe I'm missing a step, because when they reboot, they go right back into installation mode again.Thanks,Steve

Hi folks,I am new to Solaris and installed Solaris 10 on IBM ThinkCenter successfully. But after booting in text mode, I typed smc and it gives error related to DISPLAY. Then I tried with the command kdmconfig and I could choose Xsun. In the Video device list, it was showing XF86-VESA Intel ...

I installed Solaris 10 as a guest OS with VMware, allocating 376Mb of RAM to the virtual machine. The performance is pretty poor (slow boot-up and when starting application), even affecting the host OS. Any advice to improve the performance?

Hi,I donwloaded the 5 zipped iso files from the Sun site. I then used a dos copy /b command to concatenate them together and build a single iso image as the docs said. I then tried to burn this ISO image to a maxell dvd +RW DVD media using NTI cd/dvds burning software on windows xp. I used the ...

Hi all,The device has permissions set to 0666, but a non-root call to open() indicates permission denied. If root calls open() all is well. Other drivers that I've installed don't seem to have this problem - any ideas?Thanks,Dave

Hello Every OneI am running 440R a quad-cpu machine. I want to know that how I can find the on which processor what processes are running?Any help in this regard ig highly appreciated.RegardsYadwendra

Hey guys, Please let me know how to export DISPLAY on my PC:I used the following command and got an error# export DISPLAY=192.2.205.119:0.0DISPLAY=192.2.205.119:0.0: is not an identifierThanks

Hey guys, Please let me know how to export DISPLAY on my PC:I used the following command and got an error# export DISPLAY=192.2.205.119:0.0DISPLAY=192.2.205.119:0.0: is not an identifierThanks