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Ultra-60
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michal N Lusztig)
Mon May 22 14:30:12 2000
Message-Id: <200005221830.OAA10525@gypsy.mit.edu>
To: ops@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:30:04 -0400
From: Michal N Lusztig <miki@MIT.EDU>
As reported by Garry and witnessed by me, sometimes at reboot Ultra-60 is
reporting : cannot sync filesystem. This happens with an Ultra-60 running 8.4.
When the machine can not sync its filesystems, it can not boot even in
single user mode (because it is mounting the filesystem as read only).
This problem has nothing to do with the installation, as far as I can see,
but it is probably a Solaris7 bug. Ultra-60 is a 2 processor machine so
most likely this is a locking problem.
Garry and I will try to find information about this bug on Sun's web
site. If we do not find a solution there we should report the problem to Sun. Ops
has quite a number of Ultra-60...so this is an important issue.
Miki.
