Hello, I am a long-time Linux user, but I am completely new to Solaris. I have been trying to test SXCE on a PC which is to become a file server, but I've run into severe problems.
During writing I/O, the kernel has a high probability of crashing. This happens in the following situations: a) installing OpenSolaris based on b99 failes at the very end (tried it 3 times) b) installing SXCE based on b99 using "Entire Distribution" mostly fails; "Core System" mostly succeeds because it has fewer writes to do in order to install completely c) scp of a remote file written locally to a ZFS pool called "testpool" fails quickly, but "dd if=/dev/zero of=/testpool/bla" can go for a long time before it fails These issues do NOT happen with: a) OpenSolaris 2008.05-1 b) Solaris 10 c) Nexenta (stable or alpha) All of these are based on pre-90 kernels, so the problem must be new. Some notes: a) Hardware is a nForce680i board (never buy nVidia chipsets!) with an IDE controller that has the root disk attached, and a MCP55 (sata_nv) controller that has 3 more disks. At first I thought the problem happened only on the SATA disks, but I was wrong, maybe it just happens more often there; I don't know. b) The hardware is fine, extensively tested under Linux. c) "testpool" is a simple single-disk pool on the first SATA drive. The root drive is also running ZFS. d) The system console briefly shows an error message before rebooting right after the crash. It does not fit on the screen, so my best attempt to capture it is attached. I will now check whether a UFS root fails too. I wonder where I can find older SXCE releases to find out the earliest release that has the problem. I have only managed to find b98 and b99 - both fail. I would greatly appreciate any help debugging this. Thanks in advance! Georgi Chulkov -- This message posted from opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: crash.png Type: application/octet-stream Size: 407152 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20081023/1d89f5b2/attachment.obj>
