[SunHELP] unusual system boot

[Magnus Abrante]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:11:56AM +0300, Okan CIMEN wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am facing a strange problem. My mail server goes down for a reason but I do not know why. below you can find a few lines from /var/adm/messages. The server was down at 02:00 am till 08.30 - the time I arrive office...When I monitor the server from console, I get a prompt to "fsck" for my disks. If somebody can give me an idea I will appreciate...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Okan
> 
> May  3 02:07:30 pikachu unix: SUNW,hme0: CheerIO 2.0 (Rev Id = c1) Found
> May  3 02:07:30 pikachu unix: PCI-device: network at 1,1, hme0
> May  3 02:07:30 pikachu unix: hme0 is /pci at 1f,4000/network at 1,1
> May  3 02:07:30 pikachu unix: SUNW,hme1: Local Ethernet address = 8:0:20:ca:ed:d9
> May  3 02:07:30 pikachu unix: PCI-device: SUNW,hme at 2,1, hme1
> May  3 02:07:30 pikachu unix: hme1 is /pci at 6,4000/SUNW,hme at 2,1
> May  3 02:07:31 pikachu unix: dump on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 size 2049 MB
> May  3 02:07:33 pikachu unix: SUNW,hme0: Using Internal Transceiver
> May  3 02:07:33 pikachu unix: SUNW,hme0: 100 Mbps full-duplex Link Up
> May  3 08:32:09 pikachu unix: IP Filter: attach to [hme0,0] - IPv4
> May  3 08:32:09 pikachu unix: IP Filter: v3.4.14, attaching complete.
> May  3 08:32:12 pikachu savecore: reboot after panic: mutex_destroy: bad mutex, lp=30003986808 owner=2a100065d60 thread=2a100065d60

Difficult to say without looking at the crashdump. Looks like something
(the IP filter?) is trying to use an invalid mutex, thus causing a
crash. I saw this problem before with IP filter v3.4.11, dont know if
its v3.4.14 causing you the problem or not...

	        //Magnus Abrante
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