On Sun Fire V880, picld(1M) May Experience a Segmentation Fault and Restart in Degraded Mode

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Impact

On Sun Fire V880 systems, the picld(1M) daemon may experience a segmentation fault when stopped (caused by a failing PICL plugin), causing it to restart in degraded mode.

Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Sun Fire V880 (for Solaris 8) without patch 110460-32
• Sun Fire V880 (for Solaris 9) without patch 113573-03

This issue has also been known to occur when running the command: "/etc/init.d/picld stop".

Symptoms

Should the described issue occur, messages similar to the following may be seen in the "/var/adm/messages" log file:

    <system> cssd: [ID 681893 daemon.notice] Got sig#15, sending it to all CSes and exit
    <system> pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: tod0
    <system> genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] tod0 is /pseudo/tod@0
    <system> pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: pm0
    <system> genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pm0 is /pseudo/pm@0
    <system> syslogd: going down on signal 15
    <system> hme: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,hme0 : No response from Ethernet network:
    Link down -- cable problem?
    <system> in.rdiscd[102]: [ID 448925 daemon.error] terminated
    <system> picld[567]: [ID 995911 daemon.crit] Received signal: Segmentation Fault
    <system> picld[567]: [ID 161310 daemon.crit] WARNING: Starting up in DEGRADED mode
    <system> genunix: [ID 672855 kern.notice] syncing file systems...
    <system> genunix: [ID 904073 kern.notice]  done

Workaround

There is no workaround. Please see the "Resolution" section below.

Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

• Sun Fire V880 (for Solaris 8) with patch 110460-32 or later
• Sun Fire V880 (for Solaris 9) with patch 113573-03 or later

Modification History


Date: 03-DEC-2003

• Added Solaris 9 and patch 113573-03 to Contributing Factors and Resolution sections

Date: 25-NOV-2003

• Resolution patch now available on Sunsolve
• Update Contributing Factors and Resolution sections
• Re-release as "Resolved"

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