Information About Software

This section includes the following sections:

This section describes specific software and firmware issues and workarounds. To obtain patches and to check for availability of new patches that fix these issues, go to:

http://sunsolve.sun.com


XCP Issues and Workarounds

TABLE 4 lists XCP issues and possible workarounds.


TABLE 4 XCP Issues and Workarounds

ID

Description

Workaround

6723305

 

The XSCF Web does not show the correct daylight saving time.

No workaround is available. Use the showlogs(8) command to determine time during daylight savings time.

6741770

 

SNMP trap host configuration changes are not valid until setsnmp disable and setsnmp enable.

Modify the SNMP setting:

XSCF> setsnmp disable
XSCF> setsnmp enable

6757614

The network configuration on the XSCF Web does not support the function equivalent to the setnetwork -r option. And when you specified localhost or localdomain to the host name or the domain name, the error message “SessionID has expired” appears.

Use the setnetwork -r command on the XSCF shell.

6761674

The first usage of the OBP command probe-scsi-all might not show all devices connected via the external SAS port.

Retry the probe-scsi-all command.

6765468

When the timezone other than three characters

has been set, the error logs cannot be

displayed on XSCF Web “Error Log” page.

In addition, XSCF Web “Panic Log” and “IPL

Message Log” pages displays the date on the

table with “---”.

Use the showlogs(8) command on the XSCF

shell.

6767612

The monitor message log might not be

registered when a PCI slot error detected.

There is no workaround.

Use the showlogs error command or the

fmdump command to check the fault

information of PCI slot.

6789066

In the settimezone -c adddst command,

when you set eight or more letters to the

abbreviation of time zone and the name of

Daylight Saving Time, execution of the

showlogs command induces a segmentation

fault and results in an error.

Specify the abbreviation of time zone and the

name of Daylight Saving Time in seven letters

or less.



Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds

This section contains information about Solaris OS issues. TABLE 5 lists issues you might encounter, depending upon which Solaris OS release you are using. TABLE 6 shows the changes that were fixed in Solaris 10 10/08 that might still appear on systems running Solaris 10 5/08.

Solaris Issues for All Supported Releases

TABLE 5 lists Solaris OS issues that you might encounter in any supported release of Solaris OS.


TABLE 5 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds for All Supported Releases

CR ID

Description

Workaround

6440061

The domain console may display this message:

ipsec_check_inbound_policy: Policy

Failure for the incoming packet

(not secure)

This message can be safely ignored.

6531036

The error ‘message network initialization failed appears repeatedly after a boot net installation.

No workaround is available. This message can be safely ignored.

6532215

volfs or dscp services might fail when a domain is booted.

Restart the service. To avoid the problem, issue the following commands.

# svccfg -s dscp setprop start/timeout_seconds=count: 300
# svccfg -s volfs setprop start/timeout_seconds=count: 300
# svcadm refresh dscp
# svcadm refresh volfs

6572827

The prtdiag -v command reports PCI bus types incorrectly. It reports “PCI” for PCI-X leaf devices and “UNKN” for legacy PCI devices.

No workaround is available.

6623226

lockstat(1M) or the dtrace lockstat provider might cause a system panic.

This has been fixed in patch 140336-01.

[Workaround]

Do not use the Solaris lockstat(1M) command or the dtrace lockstat provider.

6660168

If a ubc.piowbeue-cpu error occurs on a domain, the Solaris Fault Management cpumem-diagnosis module might fail, causing an interruption in FMA service. If this happens, you will see output similar to the following sample in the console log:

SUNW-MSG-ID: FMD-8000-2K, TYPE: Defect, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Minor
EVENT-TIME: Fri Apr  4 21:41:57 PDT 2008
PLATFORM: SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise, CSN: 2020642002, HOSTNAME: <hostname>
SOURCE: fmd-self-diagnosis, REV: 1.0
EVENT-ID: 6b2e15d7-aa65-6bcc-bcb1-cb03a7dd77e3
DESC: A Solaris Fault Manager component has experienced an error that required the module to be disabled.  Refer to http://sun.com/msg/FMD-8000-2K for more information.
AUTO-RESPONSE: The module has been disabled.  Events destined for the module will be saved for manual diagnosis.
IMPACT: Automated diagnosis and response for subsequent events associated with this module will not occur.

REC-ACTION: Use fmdump -v -u <EVENT-ID> to locate the module. Use fmadm reset <module> to reset the module

If fmd service fails, issue the following command on the domain to recover:

# svcadm clear fmd 

Then restart cpumem-diagnosis:

# fmadm restart cpumem-diagnosis

6668237

After DIMMs are replaced the corresponding DIMM faults are not cleared on the domain.

Use the following commands:

# fmadm repair fmri|uuid 
# fmadm rotate

6679370

The following message may be output on the console during the system booting, the External I/O Expansion Unit adding by hotplug, or the FMEMA operating by DR.

SUNW-MSG-ID: SUN4-8000-75, TYPE: 
Fault, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Critical
...
DESC:
A problem was detected in the PCIExpress
subsystem.
Refer to http://sun.com/msg/SUN4-
8000-75 for more information.
...

Add the following to /etc/system and then reboot the domain.

set pcie_expected_ce_mask = 0x2001

6680733

Sun Quad-port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP

(QGC) & Sun Dual 10 GigE Fiber XFP Low

Profile Adapter (XGF) NICs might panic under

high load conditions.

This has been fixed in patch 139570-01.

6689757

Sun Dual 10 GigE Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter (XGF) with a single or improperly installed XFP optical transceivers might cause the following error to show on the console:

The XFP optical transceiver is broken or missing.

This has been fixed in patch 139570-01.

Check and make sure that both XFP optical transceivers are firmly seated in the housing.

Do not mix INTEL and Sun XFP optical transceivers in the same Adapter.

Do NOT plumb a port with the ifconfig command if the port does not contain an XFP optical transceiver or it contains one but the transceiver is not in use.

6723202

The raidctl command cannot be used to create a hardware RAID using the onboard SAS/LSI controller on the M3000 server.

The raidctl command can be used to view disk/controller status, and can be used on any PCI Host Bus Adapter (HBA) installed in the system.

No workaround is available. This issue will not be fixed.

6725885

cfgadm will display non-existent M3000 system boards (SB1 to SB15).

The cfgadm output for SB1-SB15 can be ignored.

6737039

WAN boot of M3000 servers fails intermittently with a panic early in the boot process. Sample output:

ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Data Access MMU Miss
%TL:1 %TT:68 %TPC:13aacc %TnPC:13aad0 %TSTATE:1605
%PSTATE:16 ( IE:1 PRIV:1 PEF:1 )
DSFSR:4280804b ( FV:1 OW:1 PR:1 E:1 TM:1 ASI:80 NC:1 BERR:1 )
DSFAR:fda6f000 DSFPAR:401020827000 D-TAG:6365206f66206000

Poweroff and poweron the chassis, then retry the operation.

6745410

Boot program ignores the Kadb option which causes the system not to boot.

Use kmdb instead of kadb.

6765239

If a SAS device containing multiple SAS targets is connected to the onboard external SAS interface, it will not work properly. The enumeration of target IDs within the device may change across reboots.

Do not connect a device containing multiple SAS targets to the onboard external SAS interface. Use a Sun StorageTek Host Bus Adaptor (SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z). Alternatively, check for the availability of a patch for this defect.


Solaris Issues Fixed in Solaris 10 10/08

TABLE 6 lists issues that have been fixed in Solaris 10 10/08 OS. You might encounter them if using Solaris 10 5/08.


TABLE 6 Solaris OS Issues and Workarounds Fixed in Solaris 10 10/08

CR ID

Description

Workaround

6533686

When XSCF is low on system resources, DR deleteboard or moveboard operations that relocate permanent memory might fail with one or more of these errors:

SCF busy 
DR parallel copy timeout

This applies only to Quad-XSB configured System Boards hosting multiple domains.

This has been fixed in patch 138397-01.

 

Retry the DR operation at a later time.

6556742

The system panics when DiskSuite cannot read the metadb during DR. This bug affects the following cards:

  • SG-XPCIE2FC-QF4, 4-Gigabit PCI-e Dual-Port Fiber Channel HBA
  • SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4, 4-Gigabit PCI-e Single-Port Fiber Channel HBA
  • SG-XPCI2FC-QF4, 4-Gigabit PCI-X Dual-Port Fiber Channel HBA
  • SG-XPCI1FC-QF4, 4-Gigabit PCI-X Single-Port Fiber Channel HBA

Panic can be avoided when a duplicated copy of the metadb is accessible via another Host Bus Adaptor.

6608404

Hot-plug of the X4447A-Z, PCI-e Quad-port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP card might cause other network devices to fail.

There is no workaround.

 

6614737

The DR deleteboard(8) and moveboard(8) operations might hang if any of the following conditions exist:

A DIMM has been degraded.

The domain contains system boards with different memory size.

For Solaris 10 5/08 or earlier, this has been fixed in patch 137111-01.

 

Avoid performing DR operations if any of the following conditions exist:

  • Degraded memory - To determine whether the system contains degraded memory, use the XSCF command showstatus. For sample output see.Identifying System Memory
  • Differing memory sizes - To determine whether the domain contains system boards with different memory sizes, display the list of memory sizes using the XSCF command showdevices or the prtdiag command on the domain. For sample output, see Identifying System Memory.

If a DR command hangs, reboot the domain to recover.

6720261

If your domain is running Solaris 10 5/08 OS,

the system might panic/trap during normal

operation:

This has been fixed in patch 137137-09.

[Workaround]

Set the following parameter in the system

specification file (/etc/system):

set heaplp_use_stlb=0

Then reboot the domain.



Documentation Updates

This section contains late-breaking software information that became known after the M3000 server documentation set was published.

The corrections for Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual applies to the manual only, the XSCF man page is correct.

TABLE 7 lists known documentation corrections.


TABLE 7 Documentation Corrections

Document

Issue

Change

SPARC Enterprise

M3000/M4000/M5000/

M8000/M9000 Servers

XSCF User‘s Guide

page 2-34

The description, “When you set the lockout time to 0 minutes to disable the account lockout function, the success of the first login with any user account will disable the function, whereas the failure of the first login will not disable the function. To disable the account lockout function you must set 0 minutes again.”, will be changed as follows:

“setloginlockout -s 0 will disable the account lockout.

When the account lockout is disabled, a user can attempt to login, and fail, an unlimited number of times. If a user needs to access their locked account before the lockout time is complete they must get an administrator to disable the account lockout to allow them to login and then re-enable the lockout

by setting a lockout time.”

SPARC Enterprise

M3000/M4000/M5000/

M8000/M9000 Servers

XSCF User‘s Guide

page 3-4

The description, “The domain console is not forcibly logged out.”, will be changed as follows:

“When you return to XSCF shell console without logging out from the domain, the return causes automatically logging out from the domain. For detailed instructions on setting the session timeout value for domain console, see the Solaris OS

manual.”

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/ M8000/M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual

 

New commands, the setloginlockout(8) and the

showloginlockout(8) do not appear in the Reference Manual.

For details, refer to the man pages.

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/ M8000/M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual

setssh(8) command

The following new option does not appear in the manual:

-m dscp=mode

For details, refer to the setssh man page.

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/ M8000/M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual

showenvironment(8)

command

The -power option does not appear in the manual.

For details, refer to the showenvironment man pages.

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/ M8000/M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual

showssh(8) command

The description of displaying the current settings of the SSH does not appear in the manual.

For details, refer to the showssh man pages.

Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/ M8000/M9000 Servers XSCF Reference Manual

traceroute(8) command

The following description appears under Privileges but is incorrect:

  • To execute the command to DSCP address: fieldeng

The following description should appear under OPERANDS but does not:

When used to specify DSCP address to host, an error occurs.