Never ending "pseudo-device: devinfo0" messages in /var/adm/messages
Hi,
we are running a machine that generates the following two messages continously (with a time space of 5sec.).
[...] genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
[...] [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: devinfo0
During the machine is in this cycle you can not connect via ssh or other services.
What is the job of devinfo0?
What is the reasen for the continous messages?
best regards,
tobi
[465 byte] By [
Typhon08] at [2007-11-26 7:27:36]
# 1
Devinfo is a driver used by libdevinfo .
See
man devinfo
man devinfo.7d
man libdevinfo
Its used by various hardware related commands, like cfgadm, devfsadm, luxadm, meta* and others.
What OS level are you running? Do you see any other interesting messages?
7/M.
# 2
hi,thank you very much for the fast response.OS level: 5.8Sorry, but there are no other interesting messages. Only information from your nagios system.tobi
# 3
Hmm, i wonder if the devinfo messages are the problem or just a symptom of another problem..
I have no good idea of what would cause this problem, but i'ld suggest that you add the latest Solaris 8 patch cluster, in particular if the box haven't been patched lately.
You could also check what processes which are running, and try to determine if anyone of them seems to be missbehaving.
Is the devinfo module loaded?
modinfo |grep -i devinfo
7/M.
# 5
I had this happen to me to tonight. It was on a Solaris 8 server that was patched about a month ago, so it should be close to up-to-date. It is a Netbackup Master server. I did notice that a bpdbm process was using a pretty good bit of CPU. We are using Netbackup 5.1 mp5.
