Re: Expect & Multiprocessor Host Anomaly

From: Marty Backe (marty_at_lucidway.org)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:47:02 -0000

Just to confirm the original suspicion from Don, we did have a broken
system. Lesson learned: after applying a patch cluster to a Sun
box, reboot the system.

Marty

On 2005-03-23, Marty Backe <marty@lucidway.org> wrote:
> On 2005-03-23, Don Libes <libes@nist.gov> wrote:
>> Marty Backe <marty@lucidway.org> writes:
>>
><snip>
>>
>> Either your system is fundamentally broken or my understanding is.
>> There's nothing (that I can think of) in Expect that cares whether a
>> system has multiple processors. What kind of OS are you on anyway?
>>
>> I'd start digging by turning Expect's internal diagnostics. Assuming
>> they confirm the obvious, I'd then check a system trace. I'm thinking
>> they're going to show some inexplicable behavior from your system.
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>>
>
> You appear to be right (broken system). Subsequent tests on other
> Sun V240 w/Solaris 9 machines seem to run fine. All machines are
> running the same binaries (via NFS), so there must be something wrong
> with one or more OS files.
>
> Now that I think about it, this one host had the Solaris
> Patch Cluster applied, but has not been rebooted yet - duh!
>
> Appreciate your input.
> 

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