[Sunhelp] Sporadic reboots on Sparc 5

[Jim Richey]

Sun has indicated that there is a bug in one of the patches that causes
a sproadic kernel error. They recommended backing out patch 105181-17 to
105181-16 until they release a new patch.


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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