[Sunhelp] Sporadic reboots on Sparc 5

[Jim Richey]

We have the same problem with Solaris 2.6 on UE 3500's. Some systems
reboot themselves, others just crash. Same situation though; didn't
start occurring until after applying the Y2K patch cluster. We don't get
any messages in the logs whatsoever. We just downloaded the latest
recommended patches and installed them, but there was only one new patch
and it didn't look like it would fix anything relevant to this problem.
Please let me know if you find the problem and I'll do likewise.

S Condit wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
>         I've enjoyed reading the list over the past few months and I've learnt
> quite a few things - hopefully someone can help me out with this one.
> 
> We have a sparc 5  that we use for sendmail and apache (mainly). The
> machine was to be replaced by an Ultra5 before Christmas but the new
> machine wasn't ready on time. We had to apply the patches to Solaris 2.5
> (recommended and y2000 - we left out sendmail - openwindows - all the stuff
> we don't need) in a bit of a rush and ever since this the machine has been
> reboting on an irregular basis every 2-6 hours.
> 
> /var/adm/messages refers to kernel read and write errors at the time of the
> crash
> pid varies - sometimes its a httpd process, sometimes sendmail, sometimes a
> system process.
> It does consistently say 'Invalid Address on supv data fetch'
> 
> I've tried reapplying the patches, which didn't help.
> 
> Since all the messages refer to bad data there is a possibility that it
> could be hardware but as the reboots started just after the patches were
> applied, I would find this unlikely.
> 
> Any of you have any thoughts on this - apart from going to the backups :-)
> 
> TIA
> 
> Stephen Condit
> 
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