I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on two T2000 machines and was extremely surprised to find a serious bug with the fmd (Fault Management Daemon) service.
The service would, seemingly at random, fail to start on boot. It wouldn’t actually fail though- it just never finished starting. This caused numerous side effects including that prtdiag, fmdump,…

Today I realized I was missing the showrev command on a Solaris 10 machine I installed.I found it in the SUNWadmc package but recieved the following error:
ld.so.1: showrev: fatal: libadmapm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory
Then I found the following page:showrev(1M) missing on Solaris 8Adding the SUNWadmfw package as mentioned still left me…