Appendix A Troubleshooting 149
Unexpected Power Failure Issue
When an unexpected power failure occurs on your Sun system, the following
message might appear:
Tofix this issue, power-cycle your Sun system.
Note – When this issue occurs, the LED indicator on the SunPCi III main card
backplate is not lit.
Colormap Flashing With IDEAS Software
If you run the IDEAS software package at the same time as SunPCi software, you
might experience colormap interactions which make the IDEAS menus unreadable.
Toavoid this problem on an X11 display which supports both 8 and 24 bit depths,
set the environment variable to NO8BIT.
Issues With Mixing Existing SunPCi EmulatedDrives and New Cards
Depending on the date and type of your SunPCi III cardand when you created your
emulated drive, you might have two different issues arise when you replace a
SunPCi card and use an existing emulated drive.
If you create an emulated drive on one SunPCi card and run it on a differentcard,
you might encounter one of the following issues.
■A warning from SunPCi that the MAC address has changed. This message
informs you that the configuration of the card used to create the emulated drive
might differ from the configuration of the cardcurrently in use.
If this issue arises, use the -B (formerly -bindmac) command so that the MAC
Opening a SunPCi window...
ERROR, There are no cards specified in the Master.ini file
please run sunpcload again using the following commands:
cd /opt/SUNWspci3/drivers/solaris
./sunpcload