Solaris 8 on V215
Is it possible to install Solaris 8 on a V215 server?
I know it's not supported, but could it be done for test purposes?
Can't try to install since I don't have the server right now.
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Follow rukbat's advice !
The original poster should call their account rep, else Sun Sales directly for whatever info is needed.
I agree that Sol-8 will never run on the hardware.
Not supported means, won't run and not maybe break something.
These versions lack the proper kernel, that's the reason it won't even boot.
Last ship date (LSD) for Solaris 8 is February 16, 2007.
This is a link to the description
http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris_vintage_eol_5.2005.xml
I think when the V125 is shipped, they include a CD similiar to the OECD that you use to boot from and launch the Solaris 8 installation.
So, my question still remains: Is it possible (without support from sun) to install solaris 8 on th V215?
No, if the information from http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v215/specs.xml#anchor5 is accurate.
These forums are only user-to-user, call Sun.
Michael
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rrancaniSometinmes it seems to take a comparison to others before understanding arrives.
Microsoft no longer provides support for Windows 98, either,
despite the fact that there are many corporate users still running it.
Why does the size of an installed base define whether support will be provided?
Now, considering your question from a hardware functionality viewpoint,
and once again using the Redmond company as an example,
I dare you to try to install Windows 98 on a new Core 2 Duo system.
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Solaris EOL Policy
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Installation of Solaris 8 in Sun Fire V215
Hello.
I'm trying to install Solaris 8 on a Sun Fire V215 which comes with Solaris 10 pre-installed. I'm doing so because some of the software we developed seems to have problems onSolaris other than version 8.
Is Sun Fire V215 compatible with solaris 8??
I get the following error when trying to install SOlaris 8 update 2/04 from a CD:
Invalid install CD-ROM for karch "sun4u"
I've been looking all over the documentation of SUn Fire V215 to see whether it was possible or not to install such an old version of Solaris, but unluckily I never found anything. Can anyone help me?
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Solaris 8 is a discontinued product.
That hardware will only work with SOlaris 10 and one specific release of Solaris 9.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFireV215/SunFireV215.html
If you want a more complete explanation,
go back to your Sun sales representative, else open a support case with Sun. -
Registration issues.... Solaris 10 - 06/06
Having issues registering my V440 running Solaris 10 06/06. I have posted the error below and them some system information below that. any help is appreciated.
sysax /: /usr/sbin/sconadm register -a -r /usr/lib/breg/data/RegistrationProfile.properties
sconadm is running
Authenticating user ...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
at $Proxy1.getInstanceName(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.scn.client.SCNClientSession.login(SCNClientSession.java:371)
at com.sun.cns.basicreg.cacao.ClientLoginCacaoAdapter.loginAccount(ClientLoginCacaoAdapter.java:209)
at com.sun.cns.basicreg.BasicRegCLI.authenticateUser(BasicRegCLI.java:1079)
at com.sun.cns.basicreg.BasicRegCLI.run(BasicRegCLI.java:669)
at com.sun.cns.basicreg.BasicRegCLI.main(BasicRegCLI.java:562)
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at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1010)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1349)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.getClassLoaderFor(JmxMBeanServer.java:1300)
at com.sun.jdmk.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:285)
at com.sun.cacao.agent.DispatchInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(DispatchInterceptor.java:474)
at com.sun.cacao.agent.auth.impl.AccessControlInterceptor.getClassLoaderFor(AccessControlInterceptor.java:427)
at com.sun.jdmk.JdmkMBeanServerImpl.getClassLoaderFor(JdmkMBeanServerImpl.java:1130)
at com.sun.cacao.common.instrum.impl.InstrumDefaultForwarder.getClassLoaderFor(InstrumDefaultForwarder.java:153)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$4.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1306)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.getClassLoaderFor(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1303)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:766)
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at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:294)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:153)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:149)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:460)
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Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 09 June 2006
sysax /: cat /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER
CLUSTER=SUNWCall
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java version "1.5.0_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode)
sysax /: smpatch get
patchpro.backout.directory - ""
patchpro.baseline.directory - /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.download.directory - /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.install.types - rebootafter:reconfigafter:standard
patchpro.patch.source - https://getupdates1.sun.com/
patchpro.patchset - current
patchpro.proxy.host - ""
patchpro.proxy.passwd **** ****
patchpro.proxy.port - 8080
patchpro.proxy.user - ""
sysax /: cat /usr/lib/breg/data/RegistrationProfile.properties
# CLI registration profile template version 1.0
# ******** WARNING ********
# This profile contains sensitive data: passwords and subscription
# keys. You should take care in how you handle it, ensuring that it
# is always adequately protected (mode 400 or 600, owned by root)
# and not stored on insecure file systems like those exported through
# standard NFS.
# Sun Online account information. A new account can be created by visiting
# http://updates.sun.com
userName=**************
password=***********
# Name (label) of this machine as you would like it to appear on the Sun Connection
# portal. If left blank hostname will be used
hostName=devdbs01
# Service Plan / contract number with Sun. For more information on this topic
# please visit http://www.sun.com/service/warrantiescontracts/ . NOTE - a
# subscription key is required to use the Sun Connection Portal.
subscriptionKey=***************
# Allow this host to be managed by the Sun Connection Portal. If set to true,
# a subscription key is required.
portalEnabled=true
# HTTPS proxy information needed to connect to Sun for registration and patch
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proxyPort=
proxyUserName=
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$USER:
$LOGNAME: root
Sat Feb 24 13:37:07 CST 2007
sysax
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patchpro.baseline.directory - /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.download.directory - /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.install.types - rebootafter:reconfigafter:standard
patchpro.patch.source - https://getupdates1.sun.com/
patchpro.patchset - current
patchpro.proxy.host - ""
patchpro.proxy.passwd **** ****
patchpro.proxy.port - 8080
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119081-25 SunOS 5.10: CD-ROM Install Boot Image Patch
124630-03 SunOS 5.10: System Administration Applications, Network and Core Libraries Patch
124188-02 SunOS 5.10: Trusted Solaris Attributes Patch
119315-07 SunOS 5.10: Solaris Management Applications Patch
121308-08 SunOS 5.10: Solaris Management Console Patch
119313-10 SunOS 5.10: WBEM Patch
119534-10 SunOS 5.10: Flash Archive Patch
119254-34 SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
119963-08 SunOS 5.10: Shared library patch for C++
120753-03 SunOS 5.10: Microtasking libraries (libmtsk) patch
123494-03 X11 6.6.2: fontconfig patch
119812-02 X11 6.6.2: Freetype patch
125014-02 SunOS 5.10: IP filter patch
120780-03 SunOS 5.10: ixgb patch
119764-05 SunOS 5.10 : ipmitool patch
124258-01 SunOS 5.10: ufs and nfs driver patch
124252-01 SunOS 5.10: nfssrv patch
120812-15 OpenGL 1.5: OpenGL Patch for Solaris
123839-04 SunOS 5.10: Fault Manager Patch
124204-04 SunOS 5.10: zfs patch
122911-02 SunOS 5.10: Apache 1.3 Patch
120543-08 SunOS 5.10: Apache 2 Patch
117463-04 SunOS 5.10: passwdutil Patch
118890-03 SunOS 5.10: llib-lc patch
125024-01 SunOS 5.10: basic audit reporting tool patch
123908-01 SunOS 5.10: ar patch
120887-06 SunOS 5.10: cdrw patch
119580-05 SunOS 5.10: libcpc Patch
124244-01 SunOS 5.10: /usr/bin/rm patch
119685-10 SunOS 5.10: svc.startd patch
124997-01 SunOS 5.10: /usr/bin/tip patch
121081-06 SunOS 5.10: Connected Customer Agents 1.1.0
120845-04 SunOS 5.10: auditd patch
124235-01 SunOS 5.10: libpam.so.1 patch
120050-05 SunOS 5.10: usermod patch
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120986-10 SunOS 5.10: mkfs and newfs patch
125040-01 SunOS 5.10: /usr/lib/inet/in.mpathd patch
122517-03 SunOS 5.10: Sun Fire V215/V245 platmod patch
125035-01 SunOS 5.10: libinetsvc.so.1 patch
123334-04 SunOS 5.10: e1000g_transition patch
122660-07 SunOS 5.10: zones patch
119998-02 SunOS 5.10: arp, ip, ipsecah drivers patch
125026-01 SunOS 5.10: message queue patch
118371-08 SunOS 5.10: elfsign Patch
123328-01 SunOS 5.10: expr patch
123520-01 SunOS 5.10: basename & dirname patch
123915-01 SunOS 5.10: libcfgadm.so.1 patch
125018-02 SunOS 5.10: scsi_vhci driver patch
123912-02 SunOS 5.10: ppriv patch
118367-04 SunOS 5.10: csh Patch
125016-01 SunOS 5.10: audit and init patch
119824-02 SunOS 5.10: prstat patch
123910-01 SunOS 5.10: platform_sun4v.xml patch
122255-04 SunOS 5.10: etc/flash/precreation/caplib patch
123319-01 SunOS 5.10: sysacct patch
118557-07 SunOS 5.10: platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/su patch
123271-01 SunOS 5.10: iwscn patch
124922-02 SunOS 5.10: ld.so.1 patch
123301-01 SunOS 5.10: i2c_svc patch
124325-01 SunOS 5.10: rcm modules patch
121561-04 SunOS 5.10: keymap patch
124918-02 SunOS 5.10: devfsadm, devlinks, drvconfig patch
122032-04 SunOS 5.10: Update timezones patch
124916-03 SunOS 5.10: sd, ssd drivers patch
121002-03 SunOS 5.10: pax patch
123252-01 SunOS 5.10: platform/SUNW,Netra-T2000 patch
122412-01 SunOS 5.10: ipseckey patch
122408-01 SunOS 5.10: libmtmalloc patch
120473-02 SunOS 5.10: nss_compat patch
124254-02 SunOS 5.10: sockfs patch
124250-03 SunOS 5.10: rpcmod patch
122752-04 SunOS 5.10: FMA snmp patch
124999-01 SunOS 5.10: mc-us3 driver patch
125319-01 SunOS 5.10: rmc_comm patch
125028-02 SunOS 5.10: pcipsy patch
118879-02 SunOS 5.10: dhcp daemon patch
118815-05 SunOS 5.10: awk nawk patch
121286-04 SunOS 5.10: libfru.so.1 and libfrureg.so.1 patch
122363-02 SunOS 5.10: fru_container.conf and libfruaccess.so.1 patch
119974-07 SunOS 5.10: fp plug-in for cfgadm
120222-15 SunOS 5.10: Emulex-Sun LightPulse Fibre Channel Adapter driver
119130-33 SunOS 5.10: Sun Fibre Channel Device Drivers
120182-05 SunOS 5.10: Sun Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Library
120346-06 SunOS 5.10: Common Fibre Channel HBA API Library
124943-01 SunOS 5.10: SunFreeware gzip man pages patch
122675-01 SunOS 5.10 : SunFreeware samba man pages patch
123809-01 SunOS 5.10: rpcsec_gss patch
121239-02 SunOS 5.10: libgss patch
120719-02 SunOS 5.10 : SunFreeware gzip patch
118925-05 SunOS 5.10: unistd header file patch
124208-01 SunOS 5.10: Trusted Extensions header files patch
124280-01 SunOS 5.10: libkdb.so.1 patch
120469-05 SunOS 5.10: kerberos patch
121006-02 SunOS 5.10: libkadm5 and kadmind patch
124991-01 SunOS 5.10: llc2 driver patch
124286-01 SunOS 5.10: chkey core dump
123186-02 SunOS 5.10: NIS yp utilities patch
124987-01 SunOS 5.10: ldap_cachemgr patch
119470-10 SunOS 5.10: Sun Enterprise Network Array firmware and utilities
122404-01 SunOS 5.10: xntpd patch
124990-01 SunOS 5.10: Sun-Blade-100 libprtdiag_psr.so.1 patch
121944-02 SunOS 5.10: libpsvcpolicy and libpsvcpolicy_psr patch
122537-02 SunOS 5.10: libpiclenvmon.so.1 patch
123590-02 SunOS 5.10: PostgresSQL patch
120629-05 SunOS 5.10: libpool patch
124993-01 SunOS 5.10: in.ndpd patch
125011-01 SunOS 5.10: sendmail patch
125022-01 SunOS 5.10: usr/sbin/sar patch
122376-01 SunOS 5.10: prex patch
120068-03 SunOS 5.10: in.telnetd patch
124995-01 SunOS 5.10: ehci driver patch
121010-05 SunOS 5.10: rpc.metad patch
124256-01 SunOS 5.10: md_mirror patch
125075-01 SunOS 5.10: svc-volfs patch
125073-01 SunOS 5.10: vold patch
119555-04 SunOS 5.10: Software to support QLogic Ultra3 SCSI host bus adapters
119090-22 SunOS 5.10: Sun iSCSI Device Driver and Utilities
120272-06 SunOS 5.10: SMA patch
124463-02 SunOS sparc : cacao 2.0 patch 02
119213-11 NSS_NSPR_JSS 3.11.4: NSPR 4.6.4 / NSS 3.11.4 / JSS 4.2.4
118666-11 J2SE 5.0: update 11 patch (5.0u11)
118667-11 J2SE 5.0: update 11 patch (5.0u11), 64bit
122119-05 SunOS 5.10: Patch for Arabic Fonts
119703-08 SunOS 5.10: Patch for localeadm issues
123003-02 SunOS 5.10: dependency issue with SUNWopenssl-include
123630-01 SunOS 5.10: HTTP proxy settings patch
123005-05 SunOS 5.10: Basic Registration Update
123011-01 SunOS 5.10: BR desktop icon patch
119648-03 SunOS 5.10: vlan driver patch
118777-08 SunOS 5.10: Sun GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 driver patch
121118-11 SunOS 5.10: Sun Update Connection System Client 1.0.9
118712-13 SunOS 5.10: Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator Patch
120410-17 SunOS 5.10: Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework patch
121734-05 SunOS 5.10: patch to support addition of new UTF-8 locales
119810-03 SunOS 5.10: International Components for Unicode Patch
120099-07 APOC 1.2: Sun Java(tm) Desktop System Configuration Shared Libraries
119546-07 APOC 1.2: APOC Configuration Agent Patch
124393-02 CDE 1.6: Dtlogin smf patch
123611-02 X11 6.6.2: Trusted Extensions patch
119280-10 CDE 1.6: Runtime library patch for Solaris 10
119278-12 CDE 1.6: dtlogin patch
124405-01 CDE1.6: sdtfprop patch
124403-01 CDE1.6: dtstyle patch
124401-01 CDE1.6: dtpad patch
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125279-01 CDE1.6: dtsession patch
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119410-05 GNOME 2.6.0: Gnome Applets Patch
119540-05 GNOME 2.6.0: Gnome Dtlogin configuration Patch
119548-07 GNOME 2.6.0: Gnome Multi-protocol instant messaging client Patch
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119368-05 GNOME 2.6.0: Printing Technology Patch
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120288-03 GNOME 2.6.0: Gnome terminal Patch
119906-08 Gnome 2.6.0: Virtual File System Framework patch
119538-10 GNOME 2.6.0: Window Manager Patch
119115-23 Mozilla 1.7 patch
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119903-02 OpenWindows 3.7.3: Xview Patch
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125045-01 X11 6.6.2: Xft patch
124457-01 X11 6.6.2: xdm patch
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121118-08
121118-10
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122231-01
java -version:
java version "1.5.0_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode)
/etc/release:
Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 09 June 2006
/var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER:
CLUSTER=SUNWCall
/usr/lib/cc-ccr/bin/ccr -g cns.assetid:
1917645754
patchsvr setup -l
Patch source URL: https://getupdates1.sun.com/
Cache location: /var/sadm/spool/patchsvr
sysax /tmp: ps -ef | grep cc
root 2006 2003 0 Feb 22 ? 0:17 /usr/lib/cc-cfw/platform/transport/bin/cctransport
root 2022 2017 0 Feb 22 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/cc-cfw/platform/fwagent/bin/ccfwagent
root 2003 1 0 Feb 22 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/cc-cfw/framework/lib/watchdog /usr/lib/cc-cfw/platform/transpo
root 2013 2010 0 Feb 22 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/cc-cfw/platform/ccragent/bin/ccccragent
root 2010 1 0 Feb 22 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/cc-cfw/framework/lib/watchdog /usr/lib/cc-cfw/platform/ccragen
root 2017 1 0 Feb 22 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/cc-cfw/framework/lib/watchdog /usr/lib/cc-cfw/platform/fwagent
noaccess 1898 1 0 Feb 22 ? 1:02 /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/bin/java -server -XX:+BackgroundCompilation -Djava.
root 8884 5284 0 13:39:27 console 0:00 grep cc
sysax /tmp: -
Solaris 10 - VMSTAT free memory behavior puzzling
I am running a rather complex and large application on a Sun v215 (2 UltraSPARC IIIi 1.5 ghz with 16 GB RAM).
When I start the application up vmstat reports about 95% free memory but over time (7 days) the free memory reported by 'vmstat 60' decreases at a steady rate until it appears to level out around 80% free memory. I do not have any memory leaks in the application. The application is a combination of Java and C code. There is a fare amount of I/O but nothing overwhelming. Is there an explaination for the decrease and leveling out of the free memory over this time period?Thanks! That is what I was thinking but I wanted someone to validate my theory. Do you have any technical reference(s) (i.e. article, book, webpage) that backups the statement "If a Solaris system have a lot of free memory, Solaris will start to cache filesystem pages to the memory until the memory is used about 80-90%."?
Any technical reference will help me make my case with our customer much easier. Thank you once again for your help.
As followup note: I re-ran some tests with vmstat -p and there is quite a bit of file system paging occuring. I do have many file-page-ins. However I would not expect the file-page-out and file-page-free to be as high as they are if free memory continues to decrease to 80%. -
Solaris 9 H/W 9/05 vs 9/06
When the Ultra 25 workstation was released, the documentation said it would be supported in Solaris 9 when H/W release 9/06 came out. But now, I have seen an announcement that the support for the Ultra 25 (along with the Ultra 45, Sun Fire 215, 245, and 445 servers) is in a new release of Solaris 9 H/W 9/05. What happened to the September 2006 release - 9/06?
And now are there 2 versions of the H/W 9/05 upgrade?
Thanks in advance for your help.Here is the deal, confusing[b] I know.....
Solaris 9 9/06 (S9U9) GA date 23 October 2006
AKA
Solaris 9 9/05 HW
Solaris 9 9/05 HW Operating System Hardware Support Added hardware support for the following Sun platforms: SunTM Ultra 25 and 45 workstations; Sun FireTM V215, V245 and V445
Not to be confused with the previous release of S9 in 2005.
Solaris 9 9/05 (S9U8) GA date 26 September 2005
AKA
Solaris 9 9/05
Solaris 9 9/05 Operating Environment supports all Sun systems
that were supported by the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, with the
exception of SPARCserver(R) 1000 and SPARCcenter(R) 2000 servers.
Also supported are Sun Fire B100s, V210, V240, V250, V440, V880z, V60,
V65x, V20z, V40z servers, cCPI 2130 single board computers, B100x,
UltraSPARC IV and Sun Blade(TM) 1500/2500 workstations, Netra CT280
and 440 servers, and the Sun W1100z and W2100z workstations. Newly
supported with this release are new systems with the UltraSPARC IV+
processor: Sun Fire V490, V890, V1280, E2900, E4900, E6900, E20K,
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ISM and DISM resources for solaris 10 ???
Hi everyone!!
can anyone guide me to resources regarding Intimate Shared Memory
and Dynamic Shared memory on solaris 10
i tired searching for them on sun sites but results are mainly for older versions of solaris (solaris 8 etc)
what are advantages to the developer for using them ???
regards,
reinmanHi.
Depending on your hardware, you can use the following in place of 'current' in patchpro.patchset to get recommended patches:
sunu45 = Sun Ultra45/Ultra25 Recommended
sftxk = Sun Fire T1000/T2000 Recommended
sfv2x5 = Sun Fire V215/245 Recommended
sfv445 = Sun Fire V445 Recommended
Mod. -
Smpatch and Recommended Patches for Solaris 10
Hi,
Is there any way to make smpatch only retrieve recommended patches for Solaris 10 ?
I've seen several forum posts saying to use
smpatch set patchpro.patchset=recommended
but other posters indicate that this only works for Solaris 9 (additionally, it doesn't seem to work at all currently:
Failure: Cannot connect to retrieve recommended.zip: Not Found )
As far as I'm aware, Sun's patching policy is to apply the Recommended patches, as well as any that address specific issues you are having. This seems to contrast with the behaviour of smpatch which grabs all patches..Hi.
Depending on your hardware, you can use the following in place of 'current' in patchpro.patchset to get recommended patches:
sunu45 = Sun Ultra45/Ultra25 Recommended
sftxk = Sun Fire T1000/T2000 Recommended
sfv2x5 = Sun Fire V215/245 Recommended
sfv445 = Sun Fire V445 Recommended
Mod. -
Slow boot of solaris 11 machine
hi all,
Thanks in advance.
I have Solaris 11 express on Sunfire V250 machine. It has SAN connectivity through fibre channel. I want to configure SAN devices on my own with the help of command devfsadm.
For this I created a .so library and put that library at /usr/lib/devfsadm/linkmod/ directory. In the library I defined a variable for the structure devfsadm_create_t and a function so that it will reconfigure the devices as per my requirement (names of the logical links etc.,). After putting the library I rebooted the Solaris machine with -r option(reconfiguration reboot).
Then at boot time during execution of above said library by devfsadmd(in daemon mode only), /dev/ directory is getting busy so that it is not able to read its contents and hence the machine is taking much time to boot around 45 minutes. However, that library is working fine with Solaris 10 on the same machine.
Please help me out with possible root cause and solution of the problem.
thanks and regards,
kumarHi Kumar,
Here's a few pointers that should help you.
1) There's a dedicated area of the Forums for Driver Development. See Driver Development This would be a better place the ask for help.
2) The devfs sub-system underwent several changes in Solaris 11, some of which were back-ported to the S10u10 Kernel. So if you're using private interfaces to devfs that'll be why your new driver doesn't work.
3) Support for sun4u (which your V215 is), has been removed from Solaris 11. The only sun4u systems supported in Solaris 11 are the M-Series systems. All other sun4u systems will be unsupported and therefore not boot. So I'd recommend you save yourself the time and effort developing for an OS you can't run.
4) It's helpful to the community if you provide the code you're using. That way we can review it and understand what you're trying to do and suggest possible alternatives.
5) Please provide the exact message/error you get whilst booting. (boot -m verbose)
6) As already suggested, if you want to debug this during boot, then use DTrace's Anonymous Tracing feature. However it would be better to debug this in multi-user mode using modeload and modunload.
Here's some resources that should help you debug your library:
http://dsc.sun.com/solaris/articles/dtrace_for_dev.html
http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Anonymous+Tracing
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/driverdev/reference/docs/index.html
Regards,
Steve -
LSI1064 RAID 1 V215 HowTo?
So I've got a shiny new V215 server, jumpstarted to Solaris 10 Update 3. I try to mirror the OS disk:
# raidctl -f -c c1t0d0 c1t1d0
Cannot create RAID volume, disk "c1t0d0" is mounted .
Are we for real? I feel a rant coming on. Every box Sun builds has some insane defect or some engineering flaw that just makes it so hard to stand behind their hardware. Why can't they get it? Something as simple as a RAID controller! Look at an HP DL-360. The RAID controller is flawless. It's controlled in the BIOS, which makes OS interaction with the controller moot. We were set to buy a few hundred of the V215's, but guess what? Not on your life.
Sorry, vent off.
Does anyone know of a (argh...) work-around? How do I mirror the OS disk with this piece of dung RAID controller? (Is there a secret document somewhere?)
TIA....Hello,
incidiently you already explained why creating a RAID works on the x64 system: When you configure the RAID in the BIOS none of the volumes is mounted. Invoking raidctl from the disk that is/becomes member of the RAID won't work.
Have you tried to boot from the Solaris CD and invoke raidctl to create the RAID ?
Alernatively you can add this disk preparation to jumpstart.
The procedure is to create the RAID and then install the OS.
I don't have access to a Sun with this (hardware) RAID capability, therefore I can't try if it works (and destroy the disk contents).
There are basically few choices:
- Try the above procedure
- Post to the next thread and maybe get an answer from Toze (who didn't return)
- Open a service case with Sun, either on contract or paid per incident
- Someone else post a direct answer
This is link to another thread about the LSI1064
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5135052&tstart=135
Quote from a quote from the above thead
The LSI1064 HBA can enable up to two RAID volumes and, in
addition to IM volumes, also supports the RAID 0 volume
type, called an Integrated Stripe, or IS. Volumes of either
RAID type can be created on an LSI1064 only when no member
disks have mounted file systems, as the volume initializa-
tion destroys any data on member disks.
Michael
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Solaris 9 HW 9/05 and XVR2500 runnning 3D application
Hi all,
We have just installed Solaris 9 HW 9/05 on an U45, this system has 2 XVR2500 accelerators and 2 24.1" LCD. We are facing DT/X Windows crashes while running 3D graphical application (Geosciences, Geoframe from Schlumberger).
Has any one faced the same kind of issue?
Could it be OpenGL ?
What is the latest OpenGL patch for Solaris 9?
Thanks and regards,
FranckNever mind. The answer was in the download section.
" Solaris 9 9/05 HW Operating Environment
The Solaris 9 9/05 HW software is based on the original Solaris 9 9/05 Operating Environment but has added hardware support for Sun Ultra 25 and 45 Workstations and Sun Fire (TM) V215, V245 and V445 servers (all SPARC based systems)." -
Solaris 10, Samba 3.0.25a - Server dies copying big files to ZFS volume
Hope someone can help me with this problem, cos I am at my wits end.
We have Solaris 10 Update 2 running on a Sunfire V215 Sparc Server with 2 large storage arrays running ZFS
When copying a large file via samba, after about say 200-300megs... the copy just stops... and the samba server becomes unresponsive for quite a while.
When we first noticed the problem, we had the original Samba 3.0.11 which shiped with SOL 10 Up2, so we hoped the upgrade to Samba 3.0.25a would fix the problem. No such luck.
I have tested with FTP (the same 2.6 GB file) and that transfers completely and very fast, so I am pretty damn sure its not a hardware issue.
I have tested with varios samba configurations. Vanilla configs, tweaked configs, configs which people claim solve some issues... again no luck.
I have looked around these forums and seen that some people have experience samba issues when upgrading from Sol 9 to Sol 10.
Please if ANYONE has any ideas what could be causing this and how to solve it, I would be extremely greatful
Thanks
//Steve
Edited by: reyortsed on Sep 23, 2008 12:29 PMUpdate 2 is pretty old, especially if you are talking about ZFS. There's been a variety of problems fixed in ZFS since U2. Were I to just guess out of the blue, you might be running into the ZFS eats all of RAM bug.
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6505658
If this is the case, it won't be just the samba server that's slow on the server. You should check this by doing the FTP after your samba server slows down and see if you get fast throughputs.
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Solaris 9 download link request
hi all...
i need solaris 9 sparc os which is supported by sun fire v215 .
i need it to perform some upgrade test from solaris9 to solaris 10
i would really appreciate if someone can provide a download link for solaris 9 sparc.
ThanksSolaris 9 - 9/05 HW (Update 9) is supported on SunFire V215, if you have a support contract you might will be able to download it from www.sun.com/OSC .
.7/M. -
Logical interface in solaris 10
Hi there,
I need to configure logical interface in a solaris 10 3/05 server. After reading the Solaris 10 IP services manual, I am not quite sure what to do. All the examples and explanation are about using the new subcommand addif of ifconfig. It was not clear in the documentation if the setting logical interfaces via addif will persist across boot.
Can one still configure logical interface in Solaris 10 in a more traditional way like in Solaris 8? In an Solaris 8 server I will do the following.
Let's assume I want to configure in a solaris 8 server a logical interface named hme0:1 with IP address 192.168.20.28 with netmask 255.255.255.0 for hostname host001
# cat /etc/hostname.hme0:1
host001
^D
# echo "192.168.20.28 host001" >> /etc/inet/hosts
# echo "192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0" >> /etc/inet/netmasks
# reboot -- -r
Can one still do that in solaris 10 3/05 server?Hi there,
I need to configure logical interface in a solaris 10
3/05 server. After reading the Solaris 10 IP services
manual, I am not quite sure what to do. All the
examples and explanation are about using the new
subcommand addif of ifconfig. It was not clear in the
documentation if the setting logical interfaces via
addif will persist across boot.No. No 'ifconfig' command is persistent.
Can one still configure logical interface in Solaris
10 in a more traditional way like in Solaris 8? In an
Solaris 8 server I will do the following.
Let's assume I want to configure in a solaris 8
server a logical interface named hme0:1 with IP
address 192.168.20.28 with netmask 255.255.255.0 for
hostname host001
# cat /etc/hostname.hme0:1
host001
^D
# echo "192.168.20.28 host001" >> /etc/inet/hosts
# echo "192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0" >>
/etc/inet/netmasks
# reboot -- -r
Can one still do that in solaris 10 3/05 server?Absolutely.
You don't need to reboot (you can run ifconfig for this boot and let the files do the work next time) and the -r doesn't do anything with interfaces (expecially virtual interfaces) anyway.
Darren -
Installation problem on Solaris
I am trying to install sun one 7.0 on Solaris 8. The install is failing with this error:
ERROR - library load failed with following error: Can't load library: /opt/SUNWappserver7/lib/libinstallCore.so
INFO - End core server uninstallation
anyone know what causes this??
cheersLooks like Solaris package installation failed and installer reverted to uninstallation sequence. For low level pkgadd log please check /var/sadm/install/logs/Sun_ONE_Application_Server_install.B<timestamp> file (timestamp is date and time of your installation attempt in mmddHHMM format).
Look for any errors in this file. Most likely thing that could have happened is that the installation of Java Help (SUNWjhrt) package failed because you didn't have existing package based J2SE installation on the system. If that's the case, workaround is to either preinstall package based J2SE installation or to selected option to install bundled J2SE that comes with application server.
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