Solaris

V100 + "dmfe1: TX stall detected"
Hi, In /var/adm/messages of a Sun Fire V100, I have reguralry the following etrie: Feb 28 03:05:13 batwebp1 dmfe: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: dmfe1: TX stall detected after 2 ticks in state 5; automatic recovery initiated As the dmfe1 interface is used to backup the server , regurarly the backup fails. ... 7 Mar 2005 10:25

Help: Could not find major number for 'rootnex'
One SUN V880 server got some error message like "panic[CPU7]/thread=140a000 Could not find major number for 'rootnex'" during applying latest Solaris patches. The machine keeps reboot then. I run hardware diagnosis and could not find any error. Can somebody help me with this? Remove CPU7 will solve the prob... 7 Mar 2005 18:16

RAID Manager 6 on Solaris 10 [Was: Re: ZFS release date???]
Scott Howard <scott(a)hunterlink.net.au> writes: You'll lose all ability to control the array. ie, all reporting, the ability to create LUNs, etc, etc. If you plug an A1000 with an existing array into an S10 box then yes, it will work. But... Understood, but AFAIKT rm6 (at least for A1000, this is probabl... 31 Mar 2005 23:54

Peformance of Solaris 10 vs 9 on Ultra 80.
I have an Ultra 80 * quad 450 MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs. * 4GB RAM * Creator 3D framebuffer * About 144GB disk space split over 2 + 2 external disks * SunPCi II pro card (733MHz) * both DDS-4 and DLT tape drives - the later is a Sun StoreEDGE L9. * HVD SCSI card for the above. * scanner (used rarely) which I ... 12 Mar 2005 20:20

SMF in Solaris 10
Folks, I installed Solaris 10 on a Sun V480. Later, I cloned the root file system to another drive using ufsdump/ufsrestore, ran installboot, rebuilt the device tree, etc., and booted with the cloned drive. Worked like a charm. However, I noticed that on the very first boot with the new drive, it took a few ... 4 Mar 2005 17:40

Mismatch in Semaphore values in /etc/system and sysdef
Hi, I am running Solaris 9 9/04 on a v440 with 16G of RAM. I am trying to run a Oracle 10G server on it. After adding the recommended shmsys and semsys parameters in /etc/system, and doing a reboot -r (also tried /reconfigure and boot -r), it doesn't show the new values using sysdef -i /etc/system: *Ora... 8 Mar 2005 11:17

Solaris 10: Why SunOS 5.10?
I've been curious about this for a while. Given that Solaris 10 is such a big departure from the Solaris 2.x/7/8/9 stream, why didn't they actually call the base OS SunOS 6.0? It seems worthy of a major version change to me. Any ideas? Colin ... 3 Mar 2005 19:50

oracle solaris inst tmp problem
Hi, I am attempting to install Oracle 10g on Solaris 10x86. When I run the installer I get a "error in writing to directory /tmp/oraInstall... ..." asks me it ensure there is enough disk space and directory is writable and greater than 68mb. But the df -h /tmp tells me I have 1014M and available 953M Any help ... 3 Mar 2005 15:28

Solaris 10 x86 PPPoE
I just started to play with Solaris 10 x86, how to setup my DSL connection (PPP over Ethernet) i have DSL ethernet modem and user name & password. First I tryed Solaris in wmvare on XP and internet worked automaticli (NAT), but there is no support for Video over 640x480 so I installed Solaris on his own partitio... 6 Mar 2005 09:26

Solaris 9 Sendmail 8.12.10+Sun bind to 127.0.0.1 error
I am trying to get sendmail 8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10 to listen only on the loopback interface 127.0.0.1 on a Solaris 9 host.After making the configuration changes recommended by online sources to achieve this, I get the following error when starting the MTA portion of sendmail: 554 5.3.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 24... 1 Mar 2005 15:27