Reading configuration data

Cause

In this situation, the user loaded SunPC 4.1 on a SPARCstation 5 machine. The Solaris 2.5 operating environment is patched to the Solaris 2.5.1. The user also has a SunPC accelerator card installed. When starting SunPC, the user gets this error message on the SunPC splash screen. If the user clicks anywhere in the screen, the whole console locks. The user has to move to another machine and use rlogin and then kill the SunPC process. In an effort to resolve the problem, the user had installed and removed SunPC and the 102924-25 patch with the same results. The user also removed the accelerator card, performed a boot -r and still SunPC 4.1 hung at the splash screen. The following error was found in the /var/adm file:

modrput() sdos_mbsigolint failed -1

Action

In this situation, the user had wiped the operating system off the SPARCstation 5 machine and, at that point, was not sure which patches had been applied. The user installed a copy of the Solaris 2.5.1 software and, then, performed the SunPC installation. That solved the problem. SunPC worked without the Accelerator card. The user added the Accelerator card, performed a boot -r, and ran SunPC with no problems.