hi guys,

need some help on this error message.
im running solaris 2.6 on a e3500 and lately i encountered this error:-

lp[28679]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
last message repeated 1 time
[AFT0] Multiple Softerrors:
2 Intermittent, 4 Persistent, and 0 Sticky Softerrors accumulated
from Memory Module Board 7 J3300
[AFT0] Enabling verbose CE messages.
[AFT0] errID 0x000054d0.90e01b51 Corrected Memory Error on Board 7 J3300 is Intermittent
[AFT0] errID 0x000054d0.90e01b51 ECC Data Bit 3 was in error and corrected
lp[29236]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[28869]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[29257]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[29506]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[29647]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
last message repeated 1 time
[AFT0] Corrected Memory Error on CPU18, errID 0x00005869.ace8892a
AFSR 0x00000000.00100000<CE> AFAR 0x00000000.88857730
AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1000c4e8
UDBH Syndrome 0xc8 Memory Module Board 7 J3300
[AFT0] errID 0x00005869.ace8892a Corrected Memory Error on Board 7 J3300 is Persistent
[AFT0] errID 0x00005869.ace8892a ECC Data Bit 3 was in error and corrected
[AFT0] Corrected Memory Error on CPU19, errID 0x000058c4.581f31c0
AFSR 0x00000000.00100000<CE> AFAR 0x00000000.88857730
AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1000c4e8
UDBH Syndrome 0xc8 Memory Module Board 7 J3300
[AFT0] errID 0x000058c4.581f31c0 Corrected Memory Error on Board 7 J3300 is Persistent
[AFT0] errID 0x000058c4.581f31c0 ECC Data Bit 3 was in error and corrected AFSR 0x00000000.00100000<CE> AFAR 0x00000000.88857730
AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1000c4e8
UDBH Syndrome 0xc8 Memory Module Board 7 J3300
[AFT0] errID 0x000058f8.deed0852 Corrected Memory Error on Board 7 J3300 is Persistent
[AFT0] errID 0x000058f8.deed0852 ECC Data Bit 3 was in error and corrected
[AFT0] Corrected Memory Error on CPU14, errID 0x0000597e.b5a4f601
AFSR 0x00000000.00100000<CE> AFAR 0x00000000.88857730
AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1000c4e8
UDBH Syndrome 0xc8 Memory Module Board 7 J3300
[AFT0] errID 0x0000597e.b5a4f601 Corrected Memory Error on Board 7 J3300 is Persistent
[AFT0] errID 0x0000597e.b5a4f601 ECC Data Bit 3 was in error and corrected
lp[3024]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[3185]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
last message repeated 1 time
lp[5781]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[5885]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[5845]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[5872]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
last message repeated 1 time
lp[7756]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing
lp[8184]: Warning: Received SIGPIPE; continuing




is there anyone out there who can tell me whats wrong with the machine,i cant go to sunsolve because i dont have sun contract account to solve this problem....it looks like a memory error....

thx in advance....

Now from your syslog output,
The process is probably missing some pipefile that it is trying to read from. You could try shutting down lp and starting it up again.
This definitely does not look like a hardware problem.

well, it says that your memory is becoming dead:

UDBH Syndrome 0xc8 Memory Module Board 7 J3300
[AFT0] errID 0x000054d0.90e01b51 Corrected Memory Error on Board 7 J3300 is Intermittent
[AFT0] errID 0x000054d0.90e01b51 ECC Data Bit 3 was in error and corrected

that's a memory bank on one of your systemboards.... :
http://www.sun.com/products-n-soluti...02-5032-15.pdf

gP

Oops, Pressy, I missed the forest for the trees there!

Unfortunately, due to one of my previous employers thinking that buying production servers from eBay was a good idea, I have TONS of experience with this kind of error.

This is definately a memory error, on dimm J3300 on system board 7. If you notice, it reports CPUs seeing errors several places, but it is a different CPU each time. If the CPU was failing it would always be the same one. But each time it says the memory module the error came from is the same one, which tells you that is the root cause of the error.

Also note, at the top of your output the error was intermittent, but by the bottom the error message said it is persistent. This isn't a good sign . . . Solaris can accomodate occasional memory errors, but if it is the same dimm constantly doing it like that you'll panic your box eventually. I would either replace that memory, or at least remove that bank and run with less memory. Better to run short than crash your box.