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Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone running 7.1 on Solaris 10 9/10 (u9) on sun4v arch?

2011-06-02 13:16:06
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone running 7.1 on Solaris 10 9/10 (u9) on sun4v arch?
From: John Meyers <john.meyers AT wright DOT edu>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:16:02 -0400
We're currently running with a similar release setup on a sun4u platform
(M3000) without any problems.  Using NetBackup 7.1 under Solaris 10 U9 with
the April 8th, 2010 recommended patch cluster installed.

-John

On 06/01/2011 08:39 PM, rhugga wrote:
> Just spent 12 hours trying to upgrade from 6.5.6 to 7.1. (working with 
> professional services). The upgrade appears to have gone smoothly. I can 
> browse images, emm looks clean, all the policies converted fine and are 
> browseable in the console, etc.... BUT we are having some strange issues with 
> the sg driver.
> 
> Config: Solaris 10 update 9 on a T5240 (sun4v). Quantum i500 18 LTO4 drives 
> (latest library and drive firmware). ProtecTIER VTL emulating 80 dlt drives.
> 
> Right from the jump I see the first problem.. After it appeared my devices 
> were fubar we started going thru the gamut of rebuilding the SG links. We go 
> to "rem_drv sg" (also tried modunload -i <instance>) and it claims sg is busy 
> and won't unload. I've been using netbackup since 3.x on solaris 2.x thru 10 
> and have never seen the sg driver unable to unload. I even went as far as 
> completely rebuilding /dev/rmt as well.
> 
> So I have netbackup set to not auto-start on boot. After reboots -- sometimes 
> the sg driver is loaded, sometimes its not. odd.
> 
> The core problem we had was a job would submit a mount request, the library 
> would mount the tape (verified), but the job never gets informed that the 
> mount is complete. (bptm is still waiting to here from ltid) Normally I would 
> suspect device mismatching/sg issues or library/communication issues but not 
> in this case.
> 
> robtest can mount and unmount tapes.
> 
> At this point we bumped up sg verbose logging to 9 and saw this gem during 
> boot:
> 
> Boot device: disk  File and args:
> SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_144488-08 64-bit
> Copyright (c) 1983, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> Symantec SCSA Generic Revision: 3.7
> WARNING: sg: _init failed on linkage 6
> 
> Wait, not weird enough yet? It doesn't do that on every reboot. Its 
> completely sporadic.
> 
> I looked at the sg driver file. File size matches what the backline engineer 
> shows on his system. The permissions were the same. Doesn't appear to be a 
> corrupt file or possibly the version from the 6.5.6 installation.
> 
> I just have a gut feeling this binary has issues with either update 9 or 
> sun4v. O was hoping to confirm if anyone is running 7.1 on update 9 on sun4v.
> 
> At this point I've rolled back and abandoned this upgrade attempt. (oh how I 
> love ZFS)
> 
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