SUMMARY: Proctool and Solaris 8

  Unfortunately, no joy on this one.  (Original message at end)

Thanks to:

  "Fletcher, Joe" <joe.fletcher@Metapack.com>
  Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>
  Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>
and
  "Reetz, Donovan" <Donovan.Reetz@Abacus-Direct.com>

  Got lots of "me too's" but it turns out there may not be a solution.
Donovan Reetz found this:

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I found this information at http://www.sunfreeware.com/introduction.html
<http://www.sunfreeware.com/introduction.html>   :
 
Proctool Notice --- (July 9, 2001) Sun's proctool program previously on the
site has been removed. Proctool is now considered to be out-of-date and is
no longer supported by Sun. Note that the /usr/dt/bin/sdtprocess program is
available as part of Solaris on SPARC and Intel Solaris 7 and 8 and can be
used instead. If you currently use proctool, there will no longer be any
support. 
 
Donovan

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  Unfortunately, sdtprocess isn't nearly as capable, from what I can
tell anyway, as proctool.  No io graphs that I can find anyway.... 8-(

Bob

Original message:

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  I've been trying to run proctool (2.5.4 - the 1999_04 seems to be
the latest one around) on a 4 proc E3500 running Solaris 8, patched
to 108528-08.  I've been running it on various 2.5.1, 6 and 7 versions
of Solaris but this is the only Sol8 I have.  It won't run giving this:

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    wally% proctool
    kvm_read() failed for cpu
    kvm_read() failed for cpu
    kvm_read() failed for cpu
    /local/proctool//bin//5.8_sparc64/proctool: Internal error in monitor
                  process Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
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  It then dumps core.  What is weird is that the pmon process IS run and
stays running - I have to kill it manually.

  Anyone else seen this?  Got a fix/workaround?

Tnx,

    Bob
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