[Sunhelp] Sporadic Rebbots with Solaris 2.5 - fix??

[Melinda Taylor]

Hi,

My machine is running NFS but I also worked around the periodic crashes 
(as I noticed it crashed only when it was not being used) by pinging
it periodically. It has now been up for 16 days!

Thanks,

Melinda

> Coincidentally, Melinda's machine was (although I'm not sure if it still is)
> running NFS.
> 
> A corelation or a fluke?
> 
> I have seen this before, however.  Previously, it was between a 2.7 E3500,
> and a HP-UX I40 running 10.20.  Attempting to mount a NFS partition from the
> Sun to the HP caused _both_ machines to throw a temper tantrum.
> 
> After patching the 10.20 machine to the current patchlevel, the problems
> ceased.
> 
> Hal
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	S Condit [SMTP:s.condit at unite.net]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, January 25, 2000 3:53 AM
> > To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject:	[Sunhelp] Sporadic Rebbots with Solaris 2.5 - fix??
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 	For those of you who have been following the saga of the random
> > reboots on 
> > Solaris 2.5 after applying Y2K patches. We have stopped using NFS (acting 
> > as a client) on this machine and the reboots (every 2-6 hours previously) 
> > seem to have stopped. The machine has now been up for over 4 days. I know 
> > some others have had similar problems so this might work for you, possibly
> > :-)
> > 
> > Many thanks to Harold Flynn for all of his help in analysing the logs and 
> > suggesting NFS as a possible problem.
> > 
> > Stephen Condit.
> > 
> > s.condit at unite.net
> > 
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