EMS server could hang due to aSolaris kernel defect found in Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.1.

EMS server could hang due to aSolaris kernel defect found in Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.1.

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Article ID: KB0089531

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Description

Description:
Solaris 10 or 11.1 server was not accessible or the EMS server would hang.

Symptoms:
The Solaris 10 or 11 server was not accessible or the EMS server hung

Cause:
This could be due to a Solaris kernel defect:

Oracle Support Document 1619580.1 (Issues In Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.1 May Cause a System Panic ('devpoll_clean_fd') or A Network Outage) can be found at:
https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=1619580.1


There are two issues described by this Alert for Bug 17628036:

Issue 1: A race condition between 'pollhead_delete()' and 'strclose->pollhead_clean' may cause a system panic. Prevalence of this issue varies but is usually associated with systems using Java applications.

Issue 2: The entire network may experience an outage, and multi-threaded Java processes cannot be killed (kill(1)).


NOTE
: Patches 150400-06, 150400-07 and 150401-06, 150401-07 (specific to Issue 2 network outage) have been WITHDRAWN and are no longer available for download.


Issue/Introduction

EMS server could hang due to aSolaris kernel defect found in Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.1.

Resolution

Contact Oracle Support to get the corresponding patch for the defect.

Additional Information

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=1619580.1