[SunHELP] Solaris 2.7 patch broke vold (was: A1000 setup)

[Edward Chase]

Our problem with the A1000 CD turned out to be a problem with one of the 
patches in the recommended patch cluster downloadable from Sun.

After talking to about 3 people at Sun, one of them keyed in on the fact 
that our CD problem started after installing the recommended patch 
cluster.  We were then told that patch 106541-14 breaks vold.  Their fix, 
shut down vold, un/mount CDs manually and wait for patch 106541-15.

I still have yet to mount the RAID array but I still have a few more 
messages to read.



At 05:19 PM 1/16/2001 -0500, Kovalev, Ivan wrote:
>1. Looks like CD distribution for A1000 is faulty: I had the same vold
>problem with 3 different CDs. From CD Install SUNWosau SUNWosar SUNWosamn
>SUNWosafw, skip SUNvtsse
>
>2. You should see new device on probe-scsi-all
>3. You should do boot -r after verifying #2 above
>4. After installation, monitor utility /usr/sbin/osa/rm6 will show RAID 0
>(most likely configuration) and format will show new device ( target 5 by
>default ).
>5. If you use Networker from Legato, you can use  /etc/LGTOuscsi/inquire for
>additional verification. Note that this command is unreliable and does not
>shows all devices correctly (it actualy comes from Legato, not from Sun),
>but Networker relyies on it. Therefore, Networker settings should match the
>ones from inquire.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Edward Chase [mailto:echase at postoffice.providence.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:33 PM
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: [SunHELP] A1000 setup
>
>
>I'm working on setting up a E4500 with an A1000 raid array.
>
>My OS is 2.7, my documentation is for 2.5.1 / 2.6 so things haven't been
>going quite perfectly.
>
>After installing 2.7, I downloaded and installed the latest recommended
>patch cluster from Sun.  One of these patches I have since found breaks
>vold.  I'm not sure if this contributing to my troubles at this point.  It
>was while installing the Sun Edge RAID controller software v6.1.1 (or
>whatever the heck that was called, the CDs are in another room right now).
>
>Here's the situation...
>
>The machine is running
>The RAID software appears to see all the drives as c1t5d0s0.
>I first tried to mount them, but
>
># mount /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0 /array1
>mount: /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0 or /array1, no such file or directory
>
># cd /dev/dsk
># ls
>c0t10d0s0  c0t10d0s4  c0t11d0s0  c0t11d0s4  c0t6d0s0   c0t6d0s4   c1t5d0s0
>c0t10d0s1  c0t10d0s5  c0t11d0s1  c0t11d0s5  c0t6d0s1   c0t6d0s5
>c0t10d0s2  c0t10d0s6  c0t11d0s2  c0t11d0s6  c0t6d0s2   c0t6d0s6
>c0t10d0s3  c0t10d0s7  c0t11d0s3  c0t11d0s7  c0t6d0s3   c0t6d0s7
>
># cd /
># ls
>Mail        dev         home        net         tmp
>TT_DB       devices     kernel      opt         usr
>array1      disk2       lib         platform    var
>bin         etc         lost+found  proc        vol
>cdrom       export      mnt         sbin        xfn
>
>My files and mount point exist.
>
>Then I started thinking that I might have to mkfs or newfs
>/dev/rdsk/c1t5d0s0 before I can mount it, but
>
># newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t5d0s0
>newfs: /dev/rdsk/c1t5d0s0: No such file or directory
>
>And well again, "No such file" is not true...
>
># cd /dev/rdsk
># ls
>c0t10d0s0  c0t10d0s4  c0t11d0s0  c0t11d0s4  c0t6d0s0   c0t6d0s4   c1t5d0s0
>c0t10d0s1  c0t10d0s5  c0t11d0s1  c0t11d0s5  c0t6d0s1   c0t6d0s5
>c0t10d0s2  c0t10d0s6  c0t11d0s2  c0t11d0s6  c0t6d0s2   c0t6d0s6
>c0t10d0s3  c0t10d0s7  c0t11d0s3  c0t11d0s7  c0t6d0s3   c0t6d0s7
>
>How am I to get all my new storage to be seen by this machine?
>
>Thanks.