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

[Edward Chase]

Hmmm...  That's funny...  While on the phone with Sun support, they told me 
to wait for patch 106541-15 (the next release).



At 08:56 AM 1/31/2001 +0200, Chris Botha  @  CTN DDN wrote:
>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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