I spent a while trying to find the Solaris Management Console in Solaris 10 via Java Desktop System so I could easily create a number of users etc. I found it and ran it and was pleasantly suprised to see it run OK first time. I logged in with root username and password and all seemed to be working OK.

At this point, my U30 thought it's hostname was UNKNOWN. I have since resolved this, but to my horror I can no longer use SMC. It opens OK, and I can navigate around, but when I try to go into a particular application I get an error message saying:

The "Users" application is not able to connect to the server. Reason: RMIERROR. Verify that the server is running. If it is running, try stopping and restarting it.

Number one, I have no idea how to check the server, or how to stop and start it, and number two, I have no idea what an RMIERROR is!

I noticed a message at the bottom of the SMC said unknown:898 not found, but it also mentions the correct hostname:898 is found. I checked the preferences and they also seem OK. I tried adding UNKNOWN to hosts also but that didn't work. I also tried to log in as a different user but again, it didn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas? Quickly, before I go over and start using the SGi instead!

 

 

here is a link that shoould help you. once you restart you're good to go:
http://www.zlans.com/exchange/solaris.htm

 

 

If everything else fails, try to re-init the WBEM process by removing its repositories:

1) stop WBEM:
# /etc/init.d/init.wbem stop

2) go to the /var/sadm directory and move away the old wbem and smc
directories:
# mv wbem wbem.old
# mv smc smc.old

3) restart the wbem server:
# /etc/init.d/init.wbem start

 

 

Well, RMI is like an RPC but for Java, it stands for Remote Method Invocation and its a way for two java processes to consume, errrr, i mean communicate, with eachother. RMIERROR just tells you that something went wrong in the RMI. Its not very informative :-)

 

 

I have seen a similar issue with SMC. I first invoked the appication when the hostname was "unknown". Later I resolved the hostname issue and tried to restart SMC.

For reasons I am not clear on it tried to open the toolbox on "unknown" instead on my host. There is a way to go into SMC and specify a hostname/tool_box_PATH which got me back working.

It was as if SMC was unable to understand that the hostname had changed and was trying to invoke the toolbox across the net.

 

 

Yeah, that's what caused mine to fail. I'll have to try your fix sometime, see how that goes, once I've got room to get it back up and running. Very limited by space and I'm testing some SGI hardware out instead at the moment

 

 

I had the same problem !!!! thanks for your istructions to resolve it :-)) !!!!!

 

 

Dear

I have also same problem.
I have Solaris 10.

When i click on Analyze and Add Patches then i get error
RMIERROR

Please guide me step by step on how to resolve this error.

Regards
Chirag Patel