Change to startd/duration Does Not Become Effective Immediately (6196325)

Problem Summary: As of Solaris 10, the Sun Cluster HA for NFS data service sets the property /startd/duration to transient for the Service Management Facility (SMF) services /network/nfs/server, /network/nfs/status, and /network/nfs/nlockmgr. The intention of this property setting is to cause SMF not to restart these services in the event of any failure. A bug in SMF causes SMF to restart /network/nfs/status and /network/nfs/nlockmgr after the first failure despite this property setting.

Workaround: For Sun Cluster HA for NFS to run correctly, run the following command on all nodes after creating the first Sun Cluster HA for NFS resource and before bringing the Sun Cluster HA for NFS resource online.

# pkill -9 -x 'startd|lockd'

If you are booting Sun Cluster for the first time, run the above command on all the potential primary nodes, after creating the first Sun Cluster HA for NFS resource and before bringing the Sun Cluster HA for NFS resource online.