Solaris 2.6

hussey

Ok firstly I know nothing about solaris

but the guy who does is on holidays

there was a power-cut today and all our machines went down

inc your solaris server (we use for mail mostly)

but everytime we try to turn it on it keeps restarting itself with
a message saying something like
Kernal Panic

it would then keep getting numbers like
[08] [10] [10] on teh screen etc

I haven't got a clue

any help would be appriacted

Thanks

jerk

probably the hard drive wasn't cleanly unmounted.

scojones

that wouldn't cause kernel panic.

niallb

Hi Hussey,
what kind of machine is it?

Is it actually a Sparc or is it solaris on intel.
Any identifying marks at all :-)

Those details would help quite a bit,
as there's a huge difference in boot recovery between the platforms.
Are there any removable media like floppies or cdroms in a drive?

Ring the person who's on holidays.
Expect mild abuse.
You won't be thanked though for not ringing if they've a load of work
to do rebuilding a mail system when they come back.
People get a bit funny about their unix systems.
This may be something they've seen before, and it may be something tiny.

I had a machine once that failed to boot after a power cut.
I completely migrated all services to other machines before learning
that this box had never booted properly with a tape in it's backup drive.
Removed the tape, and up it came.

On another note, do you have a list of what order you should bring machines up after such a power cut?
This machine may be network booting or at least importing parts of its filesystem.
It's almost certainly involved in some form of distributed directory like NIS or LDAP. It might just be missing its friends...

Good luck,
NiallB