Solaris 7 11/99 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware

Cannot Drain and/or Detach Sun Enterprise Server System Boards that Host QFE Cards (4231845)

The configuration of a boot server for Solaris 2.5.1-based x86 clients results in the execution of rpld daemons. These daemons maintain an active (open) reference to all network devices, whether or not such devices are in use. These active references prevent DR operations from detaching these devices.

Workaround: Remove or rename the /rplboot directory, then shut down and restart NFS with these commands:

# sh /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop

# sh /etc/init.d/nfs.server start