Solaris / OpenSolarisThis forum is for the discussion of Solaris, OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, and illumos.
General Sun, SunOS and Sparc related questions also go here. Any Solaris fork or distribution is welcome.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide
This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.
Click Here to receive this Complete Guide absolutely free.
Hello all,
I am running a fresh install of Solaris 9 on a SPARCstation 20 with 128mb of ram, occasionally i received the following error "panic[cpu0]/thread=f64900a0: fatal asynchronous fault" then after that the machine reboots. I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing that causes this but it has occurred why browsing with Netscape, when port scanning from another machine, and when removing a directory from "/". What could this be? and how can i fix it.
I belive crash dump is already enabled, (because after a crash it writes files unix.17 and vmcore.17, and the numbers go up on every crash, in /var/crash/<my hostname>/) but being a new to Solaris, I'm not sure what tools to use when analysing the crash dumps, or which files are the dumps.
I understand now, but what is the path to these tools or do I need to download them, I would run "find" but i can't run it with out the machine crashing.
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Tribblix, Ubuntu/WSL
Posts: 9,771
Rep:
None of the tools I wrote about are installed by default, I gave you the link to download the second tool in my first reply, please follow it to get it.
If your host is so unstable than you can't issue a few commands without the system crashing again, try:
strings vmcore.17 |more
In the first lines, there may be a message giving hints on what happens.
You definitely need to try also:
/usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag
and see if hardware problems are reported (likely, as the panic seems to happen at random times).
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.
