Solaris

showrev -p broke after Solaris 10 upgrade
I have a small Sun box running Solaris 8 which I upgraded to Solaris 10 11/06 using Live Upgrade about 2 weeks ago. Everything works fine except showrev/smpatch which now gives the following error: # showrev -p showrev: get_env_var(SUNWpsjdk, SUNW_PATCHID) The system is not under support. I'm trying to get smp... 6 Mar 2007 05:37

High sys Usage
Hi, I run a database application on Solaris 10 and see very high values in the sys column of vmstat and mpstat. CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 0 0 117 529 447 392 23 55 1860 0 286 3 97 0 0 1 0 0 17 95 7 453 33 73 ... 5 Mar 2007 16:33

Solaris 9 tcpAttemptFails
On my Solaris 9 server running web applications, I see high amount of tcpAttemptFails. During peak loads its around 10-15 per second. We are facing response time issues but cannot seem to nail down the exact cause. I have checked and checked the net, but cannot seem to find the actions I need to take if I see hig... 5 Mar 2007 20:15

Solaris 10 tape drive permission issues...
I've just recently upgraded one of our servers to Solaris 10 and users lost the ability to access the tape drive in our e250. When users do a `tar tvf /dem/rmt/0` they get permission denied. /etc/minor_perm st:* 0666 root sys ls -l /dev/rmt/* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jan 10 16:01 /de... 27 Feb 2007 18:06

Solaris 10u3 jumpstart fails with 38e00
I've just bought a Netra T1 105 and as it has no CD-ROM, I want to Jumpstart it. I've tried setting up a Jumpstart server using Linux (Fedora5) and also from a Solaris 10 11/06 x86 VMWare instance, and both time the "boot net - install" fails at the same point, with a "38e00 |" prompt, here's the LOM output (se... 8 Mar 2007 07:27

Cannot boot x4200 via dhcp (from another x4200)
We have set up jumpstart and it worked yesterday after being in the data centre all night :-( but today stopped working. Sol 10 01/06. We noticed that the jumpstart client booted only when we changed the lease in the pntadm database which was really strange. The lease previously said 'zero'. So I think this has s... 24 Feb 2007 18:57

Process - time wait
I have Solaris 9 on my production server which runs Apache and some other web servers. During peak load I see around 12,000 connections in time_wait. When I perform a netstat -a | grep -i wait | wc -l, I see around 12,000. However, when I perform a lsof -i | grep -i wait | wc - l, I see only 100. Is this normal ? ... 5 Mar 2007 13:54

metaparam change on LIVE system - Dismount? Reboot?
I'm new to configuring disk mirroring. We have a pair of disks that are mirrored SERIAL, and we're considering changing them to PARALLEL. Read the "metaparam" man page. BUT -- can I run the command on a live system? Or does it need to be single-user with the disk unmounted? Or does the system need to be reboot ... 21 Feb 2007 12:45

seaport absent
Has anyone else experienced the failure of Management console after an update? smc failes to connect to server because the service is not running. svcs -xv tells me that svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default (Sun Solstice Enterprise Master Agent) State: offline since Tue Feb 13 22:23:29 2007 Reason: De... 24 Feb 2007 18:57

/usr/ucb/ps causes disk space issues
Whenever we use the command: "/usr/ucb/ps auxgwww" with 'grep java' for example, we see that it writes a file to the /tmp file. Further more the file it writes is owned by root/sys and we do not have the access to root. Due to this we are seeing disk space issues on /tmp. It seems many of our other processes also u... 21 Feb 2007 16:58