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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1998: Re: Bug in Solaris 2.6 ???

Re: Bug in Solaris 2.6 ???

Darren J Moffat - Enterprise Services OS Product Support Group (darren.moffatUK.Sun.COM)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:12:30 +0000 

>Just out of curiousity...are you currently patched?

>         Its possible to crash solaris 2.6 using dtmail
>        I found that on starting dtmail and using the delete folder and
quit
>options
>        the mc reboots. herez what the messages sez
>        >
>        > ct 29 16:01:44 suna168 unix: dump on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 size
>154008K
>        > Oct 29 16:01:44 suna168 unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=0x6093cc60:
>Kernel panic at trap level 2, trap reason 0x2
>
>        Though this didn't occur everytime, I was able to repeat this 4 on
>12 times.
>        If any of you have any clues regarding this pls Post ASAP


Without seeing the crash dump it is very difficult to say what is
going on here.  I very much doubt the problem is with dtmail.

Log a new call with Sun Enterprise Services (or your service provider)
and send them the crash dump.

If you don't have a service contract, go and by a copy of Panic
and learn how to do crash dump analysis yourself :-)

At a first pass it might be worth checking this isn't some very
subtle disk corruption by changing the mount options for the file
system with the folders on it to use -o onerror=umount or -o onerror=lock


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Darren J Moffat