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fscanner Fails in Solaris

Symptom:

When you invoke File and Storage Analysis, volume data collection may throw the following error:

cannot run fscanner. May be some GNU libraries are missing"   and volume DC with fail in Solaris 8 and Solaris 9.

Solution:

You must install the following patches from Solaris to resolve this error:

Patches for Solaris 8

Patches for Solaris 9

You can see if a specific patch has been installed with the following command:

$ /usr/sbin/patchadd -p | grep <patch_number>

You may download necessary Solaris patches from http://sunsolve.sun.com. The revision numbers on the required patches listed above are minimum’s—you may install a newer version of a patch than what is listed here. For example, patch 108434-17 is required for Solaris 8, but installing patch 108434-25 instead is allowed.

If you are running Solaris 10, no specific operating system patches are required.

RSCD Commands

The following listed RSCD commands can be used in verifying adapter, multipath and SAN information on UNIX and Linux platforms:

Use sancollect command

Use RSCD command

To get ....

sancollect -h -a 1

./rsc -Y

The adapter information

sancollect -h -m

./rsc -Z

The multipath information

sancollect -h -s <file name>

<file name format>

Number of Physical Disks Example: 1 or 2

Physical Disk Name Example: /dev/sdb

./rsc -S

The SAN information