Re: Solstice DiskSuite problems: Metatool is not working: SUMMARY

From: Newbreak LLC System Administrator Team <sysadmin-lists_at_newbreak.com>
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 09:45:36 EDT
First my thanks to Michael Grice, Stuart Little (??? :)) and Eric van de
Meerakker for their tips into solving this issue.

I found than the problem was that TCP wrappers was not letting me to
reach the daemons required by metatool. I use TCP wrappers to protect
all the daemons that rely on inetd.

1) On the /etc/inetd.conf i have the following:
# rpc.metad
#100229/1       tli     rpc/tcp         wait    root   
/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/rpc.metad  rpc.metad
100229/1        tli     rpc/tcp         wait    root   
/usr/local/bin/tcpd     /usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/rpc.metad
# rpc.metamhd
#100230/1       tli     rpc/tcp         wait    root   
/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/rpc.metamhd        rpc.metamhd
100230/1        tli     rpc/tcp         wait    root   
/usr/local/bin/tcpd     /usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/rpc.metamhd


2) Added the following two lines to the server /etc/hosts.allow (the
server is behind the firewall and for some reason localhost,
127.0.0.0/32 or the internal network didn't seem to work on this
machine. Other servers doesn't show the same problem):


rpc.metamhd:ALL
rpc.metad:ALL

After that metatool seemed to work fine.

Thanks to all and i hope this anyone with the same problem.


On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:41, Newbreak LLC System Administrator Team
wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> We got a problem recently with one of our disks on a E250 server; After
> taking out the disk and placing it on the same place the disk started to
> work again (well, thats what the format utility tells us).
> 
> We broke the mirror on the server before taking out the disk and now we
> are trying to reuse it (the disk is brand new and the "failure" was
> really weird), but when we start metatool it just stays there forever:
> 
> [josevnz@linux0037 josevnz]$ ssh -A -X root@XXXXX
> root@lenbkx0005's password:
> Last login: Tue Jul 22 11:39:10 2003 from ZZZZZ
> Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.7       Generic October 1998
> Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.7       Generic October 1998
> # metatool
> Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasans-bold12" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasans8" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasans-typewriter12" to type
> FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasans12" to type FontStruct
> Initializing metatool... Done.
> Discovering drives and slices... (<!--- stops here)
> 
> Top, or vmstat doesn't showe any activity for the tool).
> 
> I'm running Solaris 2.7 with all the patches installed:
> 
> # uname -a
> SunOS lenbkx0005 5.7 Generic_106541-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
> 
> 
> Solstice DiskSuite tools installed:
> 
> bash-2.05# pkginfo |grep SUNWmd
> system      SUNWmd         Solstice DiskSuite
> system      SUNWmdg        Solstice DiskSuite Tool
> system      SUNWmdn        Solstice DiskSuite Log Daemon
> 
> Should i try to format that disk first before trying to use metatool?
> (i'm not sure if format will tell me if the disk is ok or not).
> 
> 
> I will summarize after i got a workable solution.
> 
> JV
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