[SunHELP] Can u tell me whether the hardware is faulty ??

[ChrisBotha at CTNDDN]

If you get that break, Sun can give you the fix.  It is the /usr/rmmount
file that needs to be replaced.

The patch is a very necessary evil.  Load it, and if you have problems, mail
me direct and I will send you the rmmount bin file.

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Chase [mailto:echase at postoffice.providence.edu]
Sent: 30 January 2001 04:44
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Can u tell me whether the hardware is faulty ??


Beware, I do believe that patch breaks vold...



At 03:27 PM 1/30/2001 +0100, Magnus Abrante wrote:

>Actually a faster way to deal with it is to install the latest kernel
>patch 106541-14, its better in dealing with this kind of errors.
>
>         //Magnus Abrante
>/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */
>
> > Saw a lot of this at my last job.  CPU0 had an Ecache error.  Sun 
> recommends
> > if this was the first
> > occurrence, leave the CPU in.  If you get a second occurrence, replace
the
> > CPU.  This was really not
> > the answer we wanted to hear from Sun, as this will cause your server to
be
> > down three times to
> > replace the CPU, initial CPU panic, second CPU panic and CPU
replacement.
> >
> > In some instances the second CPU panic never occurs.
> >
> > In answer to your question, It is possibly a bad CPU.  Log a call with
Sun,
> > send them the core dump,
> > and explorer output.
> >
> > Dennis L. Lund
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gautam Bhola [mailto:gautambhola at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:21 PM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunHELP] Can u tell me whether the hardware is faulty ??
> >
> >
> > Hi ..
> > I have 220R with 2*450Mhz processors and 1Gb of Memeory..OS is Solaris-7
> > Yesterday the system crashed with a core dump and i got the following
> > messages
> > logged in /var/adm/messages:::
> >
> > unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=300002216a0:
> >
> > CPU0 Ecache Writeback Data Parity Error: AFSR 0x00000000.00800004 AFAR
> > 0x000001fe.01800800
> >
> > Savecore: reboot after panic: CPU0 Ecache Writeback Data Parity Error:
AFSR
> > 0x00000000.00800004 AFAR 0x000001fe.01800800
> >
> > Could you possibly tell me what went wrong ???
> > Thanks
> > GautamBhola
> >
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