[OpenIndiana-discuss] spontaneous reboot with record in fault management

[jason matthews]

on occasion i have systems spontaneously rebooting. i can often find entries like this in fault management but it is not particularly helpful. i suspect there is really nothing wrong and the software is generating a panic and rebooting. is there a way to mask this from any type of action or figure out what the source of the issue is?

in this particularly case, i watched the system dump 96gb of ram on to a dedicated dump device. however, i was unable to retrieve the data afterwards and received a message from savecore that read something like 'save core: bad magic number b'

any insights would be appreciated.

thanks,
j.


root at db017:~# fmadm faulty
--------------- ------------------------------------  -------------- ---------
TIME            EVENT-ID                              MSG-ID         SEVERITY
--------------- ------------------------------------  -------------- ---------
Aug 25 20:08:47 6c3020a1-e7bf-69e3-ab37-cb68d4324a0e  SUNOS-8000-J0  Major     

Host        : db017
Platform    : S5520UR   Chassis_id  : ............
Product_sn  : 

Fault class : defect.sunos.eft.unexpected_telemetry 50%
              fault.sunos.eft.unexpected_telemetry 50%
Problem in  : dev:////pci@0,0
                  faulted and taken out of service

Description : The diagnosis engine encountered telemetry from the listed
              devices for which it was unable to perform a diagnosis - 
              Refer to http://sun.com/msg/SUNOS-8000-J0 for more information. 
              Refer to http://sun.com/msg/SUNOS-8000-J0 for more information.

Response    : Error reports have been logged for examination by Sun.

Impact      : Automated diagnosis and response for these events will not occur.

Action      : Ensure that the latest Solaris Kernel and Predictive Self-Healing
              (PSH) patches are installed.