After Installing SC3.1 (8/05) Patch 117949–14 on Solaris 9 and Patch 117950–14 on Solaris 8 Java VM Errors Occur During Boot (6291206)

Problem Summary: This bug is seen on a Sun Cluster system running 3.1 (9/04) plus patches that is upgraded to Sun Cluster (8/05) by applying patch 117949-14 on a system running Solaris 9 or patch 117950-14 on a system running Solaris 8. The following error message displays once the machine boots :

# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xfaa90a88, pid=3102, tid=1
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_01-b07 mixed mode, sharing)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libcmas_common.so+0xa88]  newStringArray+0x70
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as /tmp/hs_err_pid3102.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

Workaround: When upgrading from Sun Cluster 3.1 (9/04) to Sun Cluster 3.1 (8/05), install the SPM patch in addition to the core patch by entering the following command.

On a system running Solaris 8, run the following command after applying core patch 117950-14:

 patchadd patchdir/118626-04

On a system running Solaris 9, run the following command after patch 117949-14 has been applied:

patchadd patchdir/118627-04