Solaris Troubleshooting : System Hang – Sun Fire 280R
Step 1) What is exact cause of system hang (system, RSC, network)
Category: Solaris Troubleshooting
Using "asr-disable" to disable PCI slots from OK prompt – Servers V440 or V490
System Administrators encounter frequent issues with onboard PCI slots after the maintenance operations like the OS upgrades, patch installations and firmware upgrades. And often it will leave us in a situation that we couldn’t boot up the machine, because of the issues to recognize PCI slots after...
Solaris SVM – How to check on a running machine which disk was used to boot.
It is often possible that we boot from a Solaris machine from one of the root mirror disk, and after sometime we forget current active disk. And the information of active boot disk is important while we perform SVM maintenance disks. This post will help you...
Solaris Networking Troubleshooting
The one problem that is vrey common in every system administrator’s life is network issue, and most of the times it will kill entire day if the root cause/symptoms were misunderstood . Below information will help you to understand some of the basic network issues...
Solaris Troubleshooting : Sun Fire v440 wirh Solaris 10 Panic with “Red State Exception Error”
In this scenario we will discuss about the troubleshooting of Red State Exception error …
Solaris Troubleshooting – in.mpathd Error Messages and Corrective Actions
This article will give you quick overview of various in.mapthd error messages, the meaning and corrective action for each message. To understand more about in.mpathd troubleshooting you can refer the following articles – Solaris IPMP Troubleshooting
IPMP Troubleshooting Reference
Error Message : Test address is not unique; disabling probe-based failure detection on interface_name ( Solaris 10 ) Error Explanation : For in.mpathd to perform probe-based failure detection, each test address in the group must be unique. Since the IPv6 test address is a link-local address...
Solaris : Troubleshooting lost Virtual interfaces after system reboot
Troubleshooting lost Virtual interfaces after system reboot Virtual network interface that has just been setup is not seen as configured after a system reboot. The virtual interface no longer shows up in the ifconfig or netstat output.
Solaris Troubleshooting : Data Gathering Printer Related Issues
This article will help you to gather necessary information required to troubleshoot printer related issues in Solaris troubleshooting, but the resolution of actual issues is outside the scope of this post.
Solaris – Everything you need to know before you run FSCK
Whenever a file system develops inconsistencies because some unexpected issues, the integrity of the file system needs to be verified. UNIX has developed a very sophisticated file system integrity check ,fsck utility, which attempts to verify that all the links and blocks are correctly tied together. This...