[SunHELP] Solaris 8 RPC woes

[Glen, Graham]

We're attempting to migrate our main development/QA machines across from an
E450/E250 running 2.8 to a pair of E4500's running Solaris 8.

Thew new machines are up and running, NIS, autohome etc. all running
smoothly, patches up to date, the one thing that I cannot get to work
reliably is or own application which uses RPC.

In a test environment I'm attempting to call it from the same machine but
the code only runs sporadically. 

Running inetd in debug mode, when the program works correctly I see it come
is:

attempting incoming service dbprocprog
accepted new incoming tli service dbprocprog
tli/xti_accept, ctrl 78
12376 reaped

This will work once or twice (occasionally 4 times in a row) but then
instead of responding the calling app will hang and inetd will show:

attempting incoming service dbprocprog
tli_accept:t_accept failed:Illegal file descriptor
tli/xti_accept, ctrl -1

If at this point I leave the app alone then it will eventually time out, at
which point I can run it again (at least once!).

The code was built on the machine where it is running, it's built and run
happily on 2.6 (as well as HP-UX, AIX & NT) and the programmers who wrote it
have looked and can find nothing amiss.

If anyone can suggest any avenues to investigate I would really appreciate
it, otherwise in less than 24 hours I'll have to start reloading the
machines with 2.6 just to get a working environment.

TIA

Graham




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