Fwd: Install Fails on T5240

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM Jeremy Leonard <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> On Fri, 2025-07-25 at 06:42 -0400, Jeremy Leonard wrote:
>> > I was attempting a bare-metal install.
>>
>> Could you test whether Solaris 11.4 CBE works fine on your T5240?
>>
>> See:
>> https://www.oracle.com/de/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html
>>
>> It's free for non-commercial use.
>>
>> Adrian
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>
> I've downloaded 11.3 I'll work to install 11.3 this evening and report
> back.
>
>
I think I may have hardware issues.

The install failed to boot completely for Solaris 11.3. I received an error:

SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-J0, TYPE: Fault, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Major
EVENT-TIME: Sat Jul 26 01:33:17 UTC 2025
PLATFORM: SUNW,T5240, CSN: 11223344, HOSTNAME: solaris
SOURCE: eft, REV: 1.16
EVENT-ID: 63482a2a-4716-43c2-9a7a-b3fb99198607
DESC: The diagnosis engine encountered telemetry from the listed devices
for which it was unable to perform a diagnosis - no valid path to component
was found in ereport.io.pciex.tl.ptlp.
AUTO-RESPONSE: Error reports have been logged for examination.
IMPACT: Automated diagnosis and response for these events will not occur.
REC-ACTION: Use 'fmadm faulty' to provide a more detailed view of this
event. Use 'fmdump -epV -u 63482a2a-4716-43c2-9a7a-b3fb99198607' to view
the unexpected telemetry. Please refer to the associated reference document
at http://support.oracle.com/msg/SUNOS-8000-J0 for the latest service
procedures and policies regarding this diagnosis.

SUNW-MSG-ID: SUN4V-8002-SP, TYPE: Fault, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Major
EVENT-TIME: Sat Jul 26 01:33:18 UTC 2025
PLATFORM: SUNW,T5240, CSN: 11223344, HOSTNAME: solaris
SOURCE: cpumem-diagnosis, REV: 1.7
EVENT-ID: fe7d5e2f-77d7-40bb-8359-e16d74c53bc9
DESC: The error report generator has received input data that is
inconsistent or improperly formatted.
AUTO-RESPONSE: No automated response.
IMPACT: This error does not affect system operation.  The error which could
not be reported may have more serious impact which cannot be determined.
REC-ACTION: Use 'fmadm faulty' to provide a more detailed view of this
event. The system may need a firmware upgrade. Please retain the error log
file. Please refer to the associated reference document at
http://support.oracle.com/msg/SUN4V-8002-SP for the latest service
procedures and policies regarding this diagnosis.
Jul 26 01:33:28 solaris in.routed[1122]: route 0.0.0.0/24 --> 0.0.0.0
nexthop is not directly connected

I was able to break out of the install and get a shell.

>From there I ran:

fmadm faulty
--------------- ------------------------------------  --------------
---------
TIME            EVENT-ID                              MSG-ID
SEVERITY
--------------- ------------------------------------  --------------
---------
Jul 26 01:33:18 fe7d5e2f-77d7-40bb-8359-e16d74c53bc9  SUN4V-8002-SP  Major


Problem Status    : open
Diag Engine       : cpumem-diagnosis / 1.7
System
    Manufacturer  : unknown
    Name          : SUNW,T5240
    Part_Number   : unknown
    Serial_Number : 11223344
    Host_ID       : 85b10ec0

----------------------------------------
Suspect 1 of 1 :
   Problem class : defect.fw.generic-sparc.erpt-gen
   Certainty   : 100%

   Resource
     FMRI             :
"hc://:chassis-mfg=unknown:chassis-name=SUNW,T5240:chassis-part=unknown:chassis-serial=BDL10502C2:fru-serial=1005LCB-1046DK00F7:fru-part=540790804/motherboard=0"
     Manufacturer     : unknown
     Name             : unknown
     Part_Number      : 540790804
     Revision         : unknown
     Serial_Number    : 1005LCB-1046DK00F7
     Chassis
        Manufacturer  : unknown
        Name          : SUNW,T5240
        Part_Number   : unknown
        Serial_Number : BDL10502C2
     Status           : faulted but still in service

Description : The error report generator has received input data that is
              inconsistent or improperly formatted.

Response    : No automated response.

Impact      : This error does not affect system operation.  The error which
              could not be reported may have more serious impact which
cannot
              be determined.

Action      : Use 'fmadm faulty' to provide a more detailed view of this
event.
              The system may need a firmware upgrade. Please retain the
error
              log file. Please refer to the associated reference document at
              http://support.oracle.com/msg/SUN4V-8002-SP for the latest
              service procedures and policies regarding this diagnosis.

--------------- ------------------------------------  --------------
---------
TIME            EVENT-ID                              MSG-ID
SEVERITY
--------------- ------------------------------------  --------------
---------
Jul 26 01:33:17 63482a2a-4716-43c2-9a7a-b3fb99198607  SUNOS-8000-J0  Major


Problem Status    : open
Diag Engine       : eft / 1.16
System
    Manufacturer  : unknown
    Name          : SUNW,T5240
    Part_Number   : unknown
    Serial_Number : 11223344
    Host_ID       : 85b10ec0

----------------------------------------
Suspect 1 of 2 :
   Problem class : defect.sunos.eft.unexpected_telemetry
   Certainty   : 50%

   Resource
     FMRI             : "hc:///motherboard=0/hostbridge=0/pciexrc=1"
     Manufacturer     : unknown
     Name             : unknown
     Part_Number      : unknown
     Revision         : unknown
     Serial_Number    : unknown
     Chassis
        Manufacturer  : unknown
        Name          : unknown
        Part_Number   : unknown
        Serial_Number : unknown
     Status           : faulted but still in service
----------------------------------------
Suspect 2 of 2 :
   Problem class : fault.sunos.eft.unexpected_telemetry
   Certainty   : 50%

   Resource
     FMRI             : "hc:///motherboard=0/hostbridge=0/pciexrc=1"
     Manufacturer     : unknown
     Name             : unknown
     Part_Number      : unknown
     Revision         : unknown
     Serial_Number    : unknown
     Chassis
        Manufacturer  : unknown
        Name          : unknown
        Part_Number   : unknown
        Serial_Number : unknown
     Status           : faulted but still in service

Description : The diagnosis engine encountered telemetry from the listed
              devices for which it was unable to perform a diagnosis - no
valid
              path to component was found in ereport.io.pciex.tl.ptlp.

Response    : Error reports have been logged for examination.

Impact      : Automated diagnosis and response for these events will not
occur.

Action      : Use 'fmadm faulty' to provide a more detailed view of this
event.
              Use 'fmdump -epV -u 63482a2a-4716-43c2-9a7a-b3fb99198607' to
view
              the unexpected telemetry. Please refer to the associated
              reference document at
http://support.oracle.com/msg/SUNOS-8000-J0
              for the latest service procedures and policies regarding this
              diagnosis.

So this probably isn't the proper place to continue with this since this
list is for Debian. But I don't really know where to go from here. I'm just
trying to start with Sun/Sparc things.

-- 
Jeremy Leonard
[email protected]
Cell: (517) 285-8309