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Prtdiag is Not working in Solaris

Try running it as root.
If this works then check the permisions on /var/run/picld_door

The permisions should be set to 444
ie:

ls -l /var/run/picld_door
Dr–r–r– 1 root root 0 Aug 27 07:40 /var/run/picld_door

This is the fix:

shell> chmod 444 /var/run/picld_door

Inappropriate ioctl for device

Photo by Cindy_FL

I was trying to setup an instance of Oracle 10.2.0.3 a while back and was running into a strange problem.

I could get 10.2.0.1 to install and run OK, and the upgrade to 10.2.0.3 seemed to work OK. But then when I tried to create a database it would fail and [...]

Resetting the root password on a Solaris server

I had to use the following step to reset a the root password on a Solaris system the other day. You will need physical access to the system to use these steps.

Press Stop-A on the console or Ctrl-] and send brk from a remote console connection to access the Open Boot PROM (OBP).
NOTE : If [...]

How to disable the beep in solaris 10

by Pandiyan

I have installed Soalris 10 onto a laptop a few times to see how well it works. It does quite well.

One annoying feature though is that if you backspace all the way back to the prompt and then by mistake try to go one more, like if you hold down the [...]

Manually Mount a local or remote CDROM in Sun Solaris

I recently went to try and install Oracle 10g on a Solaris 10 server, and for some reason it wouldn’t recognize the DVD when I put it in the drive. Solaris and UNIX machines in general I think and usually good for this sort of thing. You put a CD in the drive, it detects [...]