E450 rebooting - revisited

From: Connolly, Michael (Michael.Connolly@itt.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 15:48:58 EST


Greetings,

Well, this weekend I updated the OBP, applied the latest patch cluster,
applied a PGX patch on the advice of a previous respondent, re-seated
everything and left last night at 11:00 PM with a perfectly running E450.

Came in this morning to a dead E450. "Running" light solid ON, System
failure light OFF. Could not boot the system to save my life. So, shut all
the power off, disconnected the keyboard and monitor, connected a laptop
with Hyperterm to ttya and POST ran fine with no errors. Booted from CDROM
and kept getting Target 2 scsi failures.

Once I got in on CDROM I ran format and could see all disks fine. Ran
prtdiag and it said no system failures BUT it said Slot 14 was EMPTY (I had
configured disk-led-assoc when I first built the box). I tried to mount a
slice from the "suspect" disk 14 to /a and the error was (something like)
"...not of this file system type...".

Tried to mount / to /a and had to fsck the slice but then it mounted fine.
Took a look at /a/var/adm/messages but there were no errors and there was no
crash dump in /var/crash/deathstar.

Halted the box, again re-seated all of the drives and up she came!! Slot 14
showed OK in prtdiag.

I've left the Hyperterm connected to see if I can catch any errors but this
one has me mystified. It is definitely not a UPS power thing as the room is
full of servers and this is the only one giving me fits.

Any ideas would be appreciated...

Regards,
Michael J. Connolly
North/South American CAD/CAM/PDM Systems Mgr
ITT Cannon/C&K Switch Products
617-926-6400 x8302
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