Summary: Strange system problems.

Thanks to:
         Renee Peceros
         Matthew Hannigan
         Alex Ranchoux

         This is a preliminary summary only as nothing definitive has been 
discovered.
After discussions with Sun support the feeling is that the strange 
behaviour being
exhibited by the system was probably due to the system clock being set back
some 24 years. The cause of this, at this stage, is thought to be a problem 
with
a system controller failover. I will post again when something more definite is
known.

Thanks.

At 16:09 6/09/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>We have a 4800 running Solaris 8 ,newly installed ready to be handed over 
>to the software
>vendor for configuration. The system has been installed and running for 2 
>weeks
>but is basically doing nothing. No activity has occurred on the system for 
>some time.
>I attempted to connect today via ssh but could not. Telneting to it 
>results in the following
>message: "telnetd: stdin is not a socket file descriptor." I can telnet to 
>the domain console
>and if I attempt to log in as root on the console I get "Not on system 
>console"!
>I can log in as a user on the system console. When I su to root I get:
>
>Jul 31 08:22:49 aleph su: 'su root' succeeded for user on /dev/???
>You have new mail.
>Must be attached to terminal for 'am I' option
>Must be attached to terminal for 'am I' option
>@aleph #
>
>if I type "ps" I get "ps: getexecname() failed"
>If I type "cat vfstab"
>cat: Cannot stat stdout
>however I can "more" it.
>
>/proc appears to be mounted. However it cannot be listed.
>@aleph # ls /proc
>/proc: Value too large for defined data type
>
>Date shows:
>@aleph # date
>Mon Jul 31 10:36:33 EST 1978
>
>The date on each of the system controllers is fine.
>The machine has not been rebooted for some time.
>Has anyone seen anything like this  before?
>How could the machine have gotten into this state?
>
>
>
>
>
>Tim Hespe
>System Admin.
>University of New South Wales Library
>t.hespe@unsw.edu.au
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Tim Hespe
System Admin.
University of New South Wales Library
t.hespe@unsw.edu.au
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