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[Veritas-bu] FP6 upgrade problems

2004-08-02 13:34:50
Subject: [Veritas-bu] FP6 upgrade problems
From: kastus AT epocrates DOT com (Konstantin 'Kastus' Shchuka)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:34:50 -0700
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:03:53AM -0700, Jann Toole wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone know of any known issues with 4.5 FP6? I upgraded my master 
> (Solaris9) last Monday and got exit status 213 errors for 334 backup 
> policies, and exit status 0 for 408. So, it's not like the storage 
> unit wasn't really available. I've seen hundreds of error code 13 
> come in email, but the activity monitor doesn't show any error 13, 
> but hundreds of error 50. 
> Thinking this may all be a compatilbity issue between the 2 SAN servers 
> and the master, I upgraded one SAN server on wednesday, the other on 
> thrusday. Veritas support has had me change timeout parameters, do the 
> ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 1000
> and change some of the system file settings - which I resisted because 
> of the tech note 264867 recommendations. 
> Of course the system changes brought about shared memory allocation errors - 
> I changed them back - no more shared memory errors, but the 213 errors came
> back. I did the ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 1000 and last night
> for the first night in a week I did not have 213 or 13 errors, but there were
> some 50 errors in the activity monitor..
> ALSO, another very weird thing, one backup policy (according to the activity 
> monitory) started at 22:06 last night, but got error code 50 (aborted) - 
> this morning that policy was running (they get 2 tries) - but there were 2 
> active backups doing the same policy. OH, and another weirdness, the
> bpdbjobs report did not show any active backups.. but there were 2 tapes
> in the drives - I hadn't looked at the GUI yet - but they probably would
> have shown the jobs to be active since the completion time was 8:45am
> I'm losing confidence in FP6. FP5 was a breeze.
> Any ideas??

Sorry, I posted a wrong link, the correct one is 
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/264802.htm


Regards,
-- 
Konstantin 'Kastus' Shchuka
Unix System Administrator
ePocrates Inc.
tel 650.227.1786
fax 650.592.6995

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