From: Lisa Weihl (lweihl@cs.bgsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 16:04:15 EST
I've checked sunmanagers archives and looked online and spoke to an admin
here that has much more experience than I do and I'm stumped with the
following problem.
I'll try to be brief but detailed but usually when I post it seems I always
manage to miss something that someone thought I should've included.
Problem: regular users logging in to Solaris 8 system cannot run vi or any
java commands without causing a core dump. Was brought to my attention by
a user this morning because java was not working. I discovered that vi was
also dumping.
Relevant information:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-18 64-bit
Enterprise 220R with 2 GB memory and 2 36GB hard drives only one of which
is in use
Symptoms:
host > vi
out of memory
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
host> which vi
/bin/vi
host> java
#
# HotSpot Virtual Machine Error, Internal Error
# Please report this error at
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.4.1-b21 mixed mode)
#
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
Running top gives.....
CPU states: 99.4% idle, 0.1% user, 0.5% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 2048M real, 1647M free, 116M swap in use, 3511M swap free
Even with memory usage low I did reboot the machine but it made no change
in the core dump status of those commands.
Both vi and java work fine as root and all other commands seem to work fine
for regular users. This machine is used to host graduate student projects
and some courses we offer with web technology. So it's running Apache
1.3.27, MySQL 3.23.49 and Tomcat 4.1.27. No software or hardware changes
have been made since this problem occured. The only recent install was the
open source code for Mimerdesk (groupware) which is a collection of perl
scripts. Mimerdesk is not running as there are errors that I have not been
able to figure out. Last week I was working on incorporating this machine
into our Unix backup scheme which required adding a user. Our backups are
done via a previous admin's perl script that is just using rsh and
ufsdump. So I can't see anything there that may have interfered. The
other admin I spoke to suggested a possible problem with shared libraries
but wouldn't more things be breaking if that was the case? Ditto with
being compromised. I would think I'd be seeing more problems. There are
no strange entries in /var/log/sulog or /var/adm/messages.
Much help would be appreciated as to what I should look into next.
Lisa
lweihl@cs.bgsu.edu
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