paul@KAOS.STANFORD.EDU (Paul Ning) (11/22/89)
We have just upgraded our two machines (4D/80GT and 4D/220GTX) to 3.2. The 80 seems to be happy but we are having difficulties running some of the utilities in the System Menu on the 220. Here are the symptoms : 1) WorkSpace - when selected, the only result is the message "Can't connect with File Access Monitor (fam)" in the console window. 2) Transfer Manager - when selected, nothing happens. 3) System Manager & Confidence Tests - a window pops up, and then goes away. The /etc/services and /usr/etc/inetd.conf files on both machines are identical and the executables /usr/etc/fam, /usr/etc/rpc.toolkitbus are present as well. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks, Paul Ning Dept. of Elec. Engr. Stanford University, Durand 358 Stanford, CA 94305-4035 paul@kaos.stanford.edu
paul@KAOS.STANFORD.EDU (Paul Ning) (11/22/89)
Oops, I found the answer to my last message in an old posting to this group. In my last message I wrote, > We have just upgraded our two machines (4D/80GT and 4D/220GTX) to 3.2. > The 80 seems to be happy but we are having difficulties running > some of the utilities in the System Menu on the 220. Here are the > symptoms : > > 1) WorkSpace - when selected, the only result is the message > "Can't connect with File Access Monitor (fam)" > in the console window. > > 2) Transfer Manager - when selected, nothing happens. > > 3) System Manager & Confidence Tests - a window pops up, and then goes away. > > The /etc/services and /usr/etc/inetd.conf files on both machines are > identical and the executables /usr/etc/fam, /usr/etc/rpc.toolkitbus are > present as well. The fix was given by Robert Viduya <cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!uflorida!stat!vsserv!prism!robert%shangri-la.gatech.edu@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> : > Just a word of warning: if your SGI machines are being ypserved from > non-SGI ypmaster (ours is a Sun 4/280) and you're planning on > upgrading to 3.2, make sure that /etc/services AND /etc/rpc on the > ypmaster are merged with the versions on the SGI. Otherwise things > break, like the new WorkSpace manager. I fixed /etc/rpc on our ypmaster (a Sun 3/260), rebooted the 4D/220GTX, and all of the System Menu stuff worked. :) I still don't know why our 4D/80GT (which is also set up as a ypslave) didn't have any of these problems before the fix, but, hey, why worry about things that ain't broke? Paul Ning Dept. of Elec. Engr. Stanford University, Durand 358 Stanford, CA 94305-4035 paul@kaos.stanford.edu
ams@ACM.PRINCETON.EDU (11/22/89)
Paul Ning asks: > Subject: Problems with system tools in 3.2 > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 21:44:59 PST > Status: R > We have just upgraded our two machines (4D/80GT and 4D/220GTX) to 3.2. > The 80 seems to be happy but we are having difficulties running > some of the utilities in the System Menu on the 220. Here are the > symptoms : > 1) WorkSpace - when selected, the only result is the message "Can't connect with File Access Monitor (fam)" in the console window. > 2) Transfer Manager - when selected, nothing happens. > 3) System Manager & Confidence Tests - a window pops up, and then goes away. > The /etc/services and /usr/etc/inetd.conf files on both machines are > identical and the executables /usr/etc/fam, /usr/etc/rpc.toolkitbus are > present as well. I know this can happen if you are using yp and your server isn't an SGI box. I had this same problem, you have to add the following lines to the /etc/rpc file on your yp server: sgi_toolkitbus 391001 sgi_fam 391002 Then rebuild the maps (cd /var/yp; make on a Sun) and reboot the SGIs that don't work. This should clear up the "can't contact fam" and will probably fix all of it. --ams _________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Simms, System Manager Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics 218 Fine Hall, Washington Road ams@acm.princeton.edu Princeton, NJ 08544 609/258-5324 609/258-6227 609/258-1054 (fax)
W0L@PSUVM.BITNET (Bill Lasher) (11/22/89)
Workspace will also not work on a client if the yp server is an SGI that does not yet have 3.2, unless you copy /etc/rpc from the client to the server and re-make.
betsy@vesuvius.esd.sgi.com (Betsy Zeller) (11/23/89)
In article <8911220544.AA00748@kaos.Stanford.EDU> paul@KAOS.STANFORD.EDU (Paul Ning) writes: > >We have just upgraded our two machines (4D/80GT and 4D/220GTX) to 3.2. >The 80 seems to be happy but we are having difficulties running >some of the utilities in the System Menu on the 220. Here are the >symptoms : > >1) WorkSpace - when selected, the only result is the message > "Can't connect with File Access Monitor (fam)" > in the console window. > >2) Transfer Manager - when selected, nothing happens. > >3) System Manager & Confidence Tests - a window pops up, and then goes away. > >The /etc/services and /usr/etc/inetd.conf files on both machines are >identical and the executables /usr/etc/fam, /usr/etc/rpc.toolkitbus are >present as well. > >Any ideas what the problem could be? > The first possibility that comes to mind is that your yp server has to have the following lines in its /usr/etc/inetd.conf sgi_fam/1 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/etc/fam famd sgi_toolkitbus/1 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.toolkitbus toolkitb usd After you change that file, you need to bounce the inetd. kill -1 process# for inetd This should help things out a lot. Please post again if things are not better. Betsy Zeller betsy@sgi.com