Solaris Management Console initialization

Pulling hair out .. please help.
i have applied the patches for smc/wbem/viper (i think).
I am having a problem starting the SMC server. I finally managed to direct the error output and see this:
Starting SMC server version 2.0.0.
endpoint created: :898
prop dir: /usr/sadm/lib/wbem
log dir: /var/sadm/wbem/logr
SMC server exiting: internal initialization failed: Cannot find service com.sun.
management.viper.services.Log
there was an unanswered post about this in another forum here:
http://forum.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=11&thread=20835&tstart=0&trange=15
and here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/12180
and other forums where the issue is not resolved.
I am using solaris 8 and have this debug from smcwbemserver:
WBSERHOME,/usr/sadm
WBSERLIB,/usr/sadm/lib/wbem
LD_LIBRARY_PATH,/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib:/var/sadm/smc/lib:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem:/usr/
snadm/lib
CLASSPATH,/usr/sadm/lib/wbem:/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/jsdk21.jar:/usr/sadm/
lib/smc/lib/smcwbemserver_rt.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/server_rt.jar:/usr/sadm/l
ib/smc/lib/preload/xml.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/smc:/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/smcapi.jar:/u
sr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/cimapi.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/cimom.jar:/
usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/jh.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/jsdk21.jar:/us
r/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/providerutility.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/xml
.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/solarisprovider.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/prodregapi.jar:/u
sr/sadm/lib/wbem/jini-core.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/jini-ext.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbe
m/outrigger.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/transient-outrigger.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/ci
mrepository.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/snmpprovider.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/wbemsnmpr
t12.jar:/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/nativeprovider.jar
SMC_RTHOME,/var/sadm/smc
VIPER_HOME,/usr/sadm/lib/smc
IFS,
$0, /usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smcwbemserver
JAVA_HOME,/usr/java
JAVA_LOC, /usr/bin/java /usr/java1.2/bin/java
MINIROOT,
VIPER_EXT,/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload
VIPER_JH,/usr/sadm/lib/smc/lib/preload/jh.jar
/usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smcwbemserver,JAVACMD
ctv1pd01:/var/sadm#
Thanks!

I believe this is a fault in the crypto file that is mentioned in the Yahoo X86 posting, namely pkcs11_kernel.so. I have a possible workaround for this. Try looking at:
http://www.webmin.com
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