Tech Info 092: Solaris 9/10 systems may crash running EtherShare UB

HELIOS Tech Info #092

Fri, 04 Nov 2005

Solaris 9/10 systems may crash running EtherShare UB

Sun has released patches for Solaris 9 & 10 which address an issue that Solaris systems could crash when starting EtherShare UB.
Sun Patch 116670-04 for Solaris 9
Sun Patch 119832-02 for Solaris 10
The system log at the time of the crash, or a stack back trace of the crash dump will list the symbol “gld:gld_unitdata_ether”, indicating a problem in the “Generic LAN Driver” from Sun.