RE: debian on a sun enterprise 250

["Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz>]

Title: debian on a sun enterprise 250

Looks like a fault, Im 99% sure the yellow light is a m/board thing and not OS dependant.

 

Its not likely to be a hd failure, so check the back, see if the psu(s) have a yellow as well (I think they do from memory, I only have 450s here in my new job), if so replace the psu. Otherwise it could be fan failure....etc etc.

 

You maybe able to boot off a solaris cdrom and run prtdiag to show faults.

 

Consider getting in a Sun engineer....if not on support be prepared for a huge bill.

 

Meanwhile make sure you have a good backup.......

 

regards

 

Thing

 

-----Original Message-----
From: james derry [mailto:james@bscsf.utexas.edu]
Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 9:48 a.m.
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: debian on a sun enterprise 250

i've recently taken over sysadmin duties for a sun enterprise 250 running debian. the 250's has frontpanels LEDs, and one on this machine, the general fault LED, burns constant yellow. online documentation for the hardware at http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/General/LEDs/E250_LEDs.html says:

This yellow LED blinks slowly while the system runs its power-on self-test (POST) diagnostics and blinks rapidly during OpenBoot diagnostic (OBDiag) tests. It lights steadily when any fault is detected (including a fault also reported by any other LED).

Q: could this be a normal state for enterprise 250s running debian? or is the LED truly reporting that a fault has been detected?

thanks,
james