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Solaris 9 9/05 Release Notes

SPARC: After Upgrading or Applying Recommended Patches, Problems With SAM-FS/QFS Occur (5003346)

The SAM-FS/QFS daemons do not start and the file systems are unmountable if you performed either of the following operations:

The error occurs because system call 181 that the daemons normally use is being used by a different module. The module was introduced by the patch that you had just applied. The following error messages are recorded in /var/adm/messages :


/var/adm/messages
 Jan  5 13:28:46 host genunix: [ID 147998 kern.warning] WARNING: system 
 call entry 181 is already in use
 Jan  5 13:28:46 host samfs: [ID 798779 kern.warning] WARNING: SAM-FS: 
 modload(samsys) failed.

In addition, the following error messages are also recorded in /var/adm/sam-log :


/var/adm/sam-log
 Jan  5 13:30:08 host sam-fsd[355]: [ID 617651 local4.alert] Fatal error -
 samsys module not loaded
 Jan  5 13:30:08 host sam-fsd[355]: [ID 765074 local4.alert]   Correct 
 problem and 'kill -HUP 355'

Perform the following steps:

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Issue a grep of 181 from the modinfo output to determine if 181 is in use by another module:


    # modinfo | grep 181
     8  1181aa0   38c4   1   1  TS (time sharing sched class)
    15  11b1092   181a  12   1  sad (STREAMS Administrative Driver ')
    43  1295cd8    ce9 181   1  ssc050 (SSC050 i2c device driver: v1.4)
   158 7813a87f   181c  95   1  cpc (cpc sampling driver v1.10)
   158 7813a87f   181c 179   1  cpc (cpc sampling system call)
   158 7813a87f   181c 179   1  cpc (32-bit cpc sampling system call)

    Because system call 181 is used by another module, configure samsys to use another unused system call value.

  3. Edit /etc/name_to_sysnum by changing samsys to use 182 or some other unused value from 0-255.


    samsys			182

  4. Boot the system to reconfigure samsys.

    # shutdown -y -g0 -i0

    OK> boot -r

  5. Verify that the error messages no longer appear in /var/adm/messages and that all SAM-FS file systems can mount.