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List:       ipfilter
Subject:    Re: Solaris 2.5.1 Kernel Panic on 3.4.4
From:       Darren Reed <darrenr () reed ! wattle ! id ! au>
Date:       2000-05-31 2:46:01
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In some email I received from Brian Foddy, sie wrote:
> 
> Hello, I'm new to this group and to ipfilter in general.  I've normally
> used Linux and masquerading ipchains to do this function.  However I'm
> in a situation where I really want to set up a Sun Sparc running 2.5.1
> with this feature.  Things looked pretty well documented and straight
> forward so I gave it a try.
> 
> I downloaded ipfilter 3.4.4 from the main site, compiled it under
> Solaris 2.5.1 using the standard Sun cc.  Following the directions
> it compiled fine.  When I did a make package, that's when things start
> going sour.
> 
> I'm writing this letter from memory, so I can't be exact of the exact
> sequence of error messages, but here goes.
> 
> The make package, built the package fine, then with the pkgadd part
> it installed the package fine, but at the very end cause the kernel to panic.
> I believe there was an error like "/dev/bb.b0 not a serial device" .... Panic.
> (its probably not bb.b0, but its something very similar, my memory
> fails me).
> 
> On an attempted reboot,  just after the configuring devices part
> it gets to some boot statements for 
> IPFilter, the same error about /dev/bb.bo and panic again.

What is /dev/bb.bo there for ?  Are you running some weird serial interface
with PPP ?

> During the boots, there is no ethernet interface active, that hostname.le0
> file is commented out.
> 
> Single user mode boot, same result.  Basically I cannot get the machine
> to boot what-so-ever.  Finally I boot via the CDROM.
[...]

In situations, such as this, the correct thing to do is "boot -sa".
The kernel will ask you for a bunch of things, including an input
consisting of a collection of pathnames like "/kernel /usr/kernel".
Enter all the paths in the order given except for "/usr/kernel".
Then when you get to single user mode, rm /usr/kernel/drv/ipf and
/usr/kernel/drv/ipf.conf

I'm not going to rule out that there is a problem with 2.5.1 - it's
pretty old enough now (i.e. you should upgrade :) that I don't have
any systems running it and it is likely something has crept in to
make it panic on 2.5.1.  Have you tried 3.3.16 ?

ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/net/ip-filter/ip_fil3.3.16.tar.gz

Darren

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