we have several Niagara box running Solaris 10 with vxvm 4.1. The vmstat hang for very long time before give output.Using truss with vmstat, I found vmstat looping on :-stat("/dev/osa/dev/dsk", 0xFFBFF620)Err#2 ENOENTstat("/dev/dsk", 0xFFBFF620)= 0stat("/dev/md/dsk", 0xFFBFF620)Err#2 ...

I'm simulating with simics a Multiprocessor with SPARC and Solaris 8 as OS. I have a working configuration with 64 processors, but when I try to boot a configuration with 128 processor I get the following error :panic [cpu149 ]/thread = 10408000 : add_softintr: exceeded 256 handlersWhat I need ...

Hello,I just configured the pre-install solaris 10 on a new X2200 box. I selected the correct regions and locales when ask like Great Britain etc etcHowever the keyboard seems to be using a US layout (not sure)For example the # key gives \and " gives @How do I change things so the key strokes ...

$rmformat :Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci1462,7210@1d,7/storage@5/disk@0,0Connected Device: USB FLASH DRIVE 34CHDevice Type: Removablemounting:mkdir /mnt/usbmount -F pcfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt/usbget mount: Block device ...

Hi,When I run ifconfig -a i get a lo0 device with 127.0.0.1 address. I guess this should be the local loopback.No other devices are shown even though I have a on board network card and the lights on it are on. How do I configure this and make it visible on the ...

How can I install Solaris on Sun Fire V440 without graphic card ?Someone said it is possible via Console Port or Network using putty. I have never done it before. Is there anyone who has experience with that kind of installation? Does any one can share with advices ?Many ...

Hi All,I have the problem that after installation of Solaris Express on SPARC machine there is no available remote desktop. I am using Xmanager to connect to my server.It works fine with Solaris 9 and 10.Do you know what is the problem?Thanks,Daniel

Hi All,I have configured the JumpStart server on Solaris 10.I install Solaris 10 and Solaris 9 also using flash installation.When I run installation installer ask me 2 or 3 questions (I don't exactly remember) about NFS and then it install automatically.Does anybody know how to avoid these few ...

Hi All,I am getting this issue , when I am running my test.so under the following OS configuration,uname -a output as the below SunOS hello_test 5.9 Generic_118558-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100,I get Crash occurred in function fprintf from module /usr/lib/libc.so.1.But the same shared ...

I tried using NICs like Intel PRO/100 S and the 3COM Etherlink 10/100 PCI (3C905C-TXM). I downloaded a software from SUN, made a bootable CD, and when it scanned my PC, it says that likely my hardware will be compatible with Solaris 10 (Nov 2006). Yet,At the beginning of the installation, I see ...

I see the driver for my NIC, the D-Link DFE-530TX+ at this site http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/It talked about this NIC on choice #4, but how do I go about installing the driver rf-1.1.0.tar.gz on Solaris 10 x86 to make this NIC work? Thanks.

Please help!!! I have a SunFire V40z and am running Solaris 10. When I run the metastat command I get the following message:# metastatd0: RAIDState: Needs MaintenanceInvoke: metareplace d0 c4t10d0s0 <new device>Interlace: 32 blocksSize: 1754571105 blocks (836 GB)Original device:Size: ...

I have a "server" running Solaris 10. It's an AMD64 server with 1 GB of RAM and a pair of 160 GB SATA disks on an Asus NForce4 board. The system uses SVM to mirror root, and ZFS for home directories, which are shared out via NFS and Samba to a closed network of 5 machines. That's pretty much ...

[ I may have posted this to the wrong forum "solaris 10 features", so I am reposting here, sorry. ]I have a "server" running Solaris 10. It's an AMD64 server with 1 GB of RAM and a pair of 160 GB SATA disks on an Asus NForce4 board. The system uses SVM to mirror root, and ZFS for home ...

I need to use a spinlock in my VMCI Solaris device driver. After reading some documentation, I figured out that there are 2 types of locks in solaris: adaptive locks and spinlocks.Adaptive locks are the most common type in Solaris and they can either 'block' or 'spin' depending on whether ...

DLink DFE-530TX+Netgear GA311Intel PRO/1000 MT dual portThe above 3 NICs appeared on the approved HCL list for Solaris 10 (Nov 2006). I went to the store, and bought all 3 of them already.I tried using the DLink DFE-530TX+. It didn't work. I got some results when I ran the ipconfig -a command. ...

Hi,I need enable ntp client on solaris system, how can i do this? and the O/S have oracle installed. What should I pay attention?

After applying outstanding patches i get the following message in all zones:WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: exit status 134[ Jun 7 09:49:44 Method "start" exited with status 95 ][ Jun 7 09:54:28 Enabled. ][ Jun 7 09:54:30 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]file is ...

Hi,I am unable to connect to a service registerd in /etc/inet/services on Solaris 10 from a remote HP server. I have convert the /etc/inet/inetd.conf file to SMF database using inetconv -fi /etc/inet/inetd.conf command.So i need to execute any other steps to connect to inet services from remote ...

Environment:2 Sunfire V890's running solaris 2.9 and SC3.1U4Hello All,I am having a problem with oracle startup and shutdown in my cluster. In order to get oracle to startup after a failover, shutdown what have you, I need to implement the following procedure as a pre/post oracle startup ...

Hi All,Whenever i execute any command n command line on Solaris 10, i get the following Error message "couldn't lock the package databse" . What can be the possible reasons for this ?Thanks.Regards,Hemil

Hi All, On executing the command inetconv -i /etc/inet/inetd.conf i get the following error message -incorrect or inconsistent fields : service-name protocol. Even after the message it generates the SMF file correctly . I am unable to understand the cause of that error message. Also the data in ...

I am having a lot of issues with w/ smpatch. Two prod servers have lost the ability to run smc and updatemanager. I get the follwing error:# smcWarning: Cannot convert string"-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStructWarning: Unable to load any usable ...

Hi,I am trying to ssh from a linux box Fedora core 5 to a solaris box running solaris 2.9.On the linux box:[pavan@turing CODE]$ ssh -vOpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005On the solaris box:bash-2.05$ ssh -vSSH Version Sun_SSH_1.0.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.Openssh > 4.0 introduced a ...

Hello,I am going to learn SC 3.2 and want to deploy testing cluster. Unfortunatelly the hosts I have to do so has only one NIC each. While it is not supported/adviced in production can I install/use/learn SC 3.2 having only one NIC (of course in testing environements) ...

Is that possible to instal JAVA 1.5 without X-Window ? As I found in Java's requirements, it requires browser (Mozilla 1.4+).Browser is useless without X-Window.... What do you think ? What are yours experiences ?Many thanks,czezz

HttpServlet class is an abstract class. but we dont override all the methods why?

Hi,I have a sun cluster 3.1 setup running and want to add another box. But I am missing the binary and need to install same version for ease of administration.I am searching at sun.com but unable to find sun cluster 3.1.Kindly let me know if i can get sun cluster binary from any link.Thanks for ...

Hi,Can the manifest file generated using inetconv on Solaris 10 manually removed or some command needs to be executed. ?Soes any special care needs to be taken in order to delete the service manifest file.Thanks.Regards,Hemil

Hi, I'm trying to switch my Solaris 10 box from DHCP to static IP. It worked out of the box with DHCP. I've read through the forums and googled, and I think I'm almost there, but not quite. My network interface is bge0; the desired IP is 192.168.2.5 with hostname server2; and the router is ...

I'm new to the world of Sun, so please go easy on me. :) I'm having a hard time finding what I need on sun.com, so I hope it is OK to ask questions here.I have a second-hand Ultra 5 that was saved from the recycle bin. I hope to get it up and running so I can gain some Solaris experience. I ...

Is it possible to skip the attempted autoconfiguration of network interfaces when booting from a CD or DVD?If a server has many interfaces, it can spend considerable time trying to configure each one. Pain in the rear when you just want to boot single user.Thanks,Mark

Hi,I am trying the increase the max number for file descriptor allowed in Solaris.I changed the ulimit soft value to hard limit value (65536) as a root.Even the ulimit -a shows the change value for the soft limit.When I run my test program to find the value of sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) it shows the ...

I am experiencing problems installing Solaris 10 on Blade 2000 with XVR-1000 graphic board. The card passes PROM testThe DVD isn't working so I am installing through network.I can install only on text mode (ok boot net - nowin). - install and - text options fails to load graphic ...

folks,I'm trying to setup a SVN server on Solaris 10 Sparc. I got everything installed and the SVN server up.Code:# svcs -a | grep subversiononline 18:31:25 svc:/network/subversion:defaultPort was set to 3691 using: svnserve --daemon --listen-port 3691 --root /export/home0/subversion and it ...

Hey everyone, I recently was trying to configure ldap on SunOS 5.10 and accidentally edited the pam.conf file to use ldap verification for the login and remote login. After I rebooted I realized that I hadn't worked out all the ldap configuration kinks and when I got to the login screen, the ...

Hi,We have a 2 node T2000 cluster,The first one configures external EMC storage and VERITAS VxVM stuff.The second one, when installs VERITAS must see the external storage and the already configured VxVM items.after it is registered to the EMC we issue a devfsadm command but it doesn't see the ...

Is it possible to do a "live migration" with a Solaris Container running on HAStoragePlus ZFS (or any other filesystem for that matter)? I'm a bit fuzzy as to what kind of support Cluster 3.2 now offers for Solaris Containers.Specifically something we would like to try at our site is HA-AFS ...

Hi,I have downloaded solaris 10 installation CDs from site, verified them with checksums and burnt then into 700MB CDs. When I put the first one into CD-Rom and issue "boot cdrom" it prompt smthing like:there is no executable file ...What is the problem?

Hi All,How do I open more than 256 file descriptor using stdio.h and fopen in Solaris 5.9.I guess extendedlib.so.1 is available for solaris 10.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks-A

Hi, I am running Solaris 9 on one of my box.(Enterprise 2)a) shutdown -i S -g 0 -yb) shutdown -i s -g 0 -yc) init 1d) boot -s (from ok prompt)e) boot -S (from ok prompt)Tried Issuing the above mentioned commands brings the system to the below ...

On solaris 10 I have configured the snmpd.conf file and then I run /usr/sfw/sbin/snmpd to start the daemon. How ecaxtly should I configure it in the rc directories to come up at boot time. I am confused about /etc/init.d/init.snmpdx. I'm not that experienced with /etc/rcX.d/SXX scripts and how ...

How to enable/disable services while doing a jumpstart based installation.thanks & regards,rathi

I want to buy the System, where I want to install the Solaris. I am looking for the AMD X2 Athalon 4800+. Is it possible to install the Solaris on AMD X2 with Jetway Motherboard. Can you please let know.

We modified the normal files to do this and yet we still don't see the change at logon. Anyone know if this changed in release 10 or if running on an X86 has an influence.

My root / is 99% full. How can I add more space from what is available. My File System is:Filesystemkbytes usedavailcapacityMounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 4743387 46260316992399%//devices 00 00%/devicesctfs00 00% /system/contractproc00 00% /procmnttab 0000% /etc/mnttabswap 31604409683159472 ...

I'm a tad overwhelmed at the moment because I think that zfs just ate all of my data. Here's what happened.I created a raidz array of two disks and moved 300 gigs of data onto it. I went to add a third disk to it. The third disk didn't attach in the right place (not in the raidz but parallel ...

I managed to get 10 installed and running. Have root and one user setup and got a number of updates except several require manual installation. Haven't been able to find out the instructions to do that.I have a good bit of years with Linux and WIndows but new to Solaris so I need a bit of ...

ive successfully installed solaris 11/06 on my dell D8090 laptop...everythings running fine...i wanted to install KDE as well as an alternative to the java desktop...any ideas ?

I downloaded and install solaris 10, relise 6/06, sparc.uname show me "SunOS 5.11".I tryed install 10_Recommended, but system says that incompatible release.There are where Recommended patches for this kernel?