Using Netbackup v7.0.1 on SPARC Solaris 10 on a media server connected to a SAN. Server has been working with this Netbackup configuration since 2011 -- other than the OS being patched. No changes have been implemented recently to coincide with the issue.
Netbackup tends to cause some servers to hang at boot at times. The solution is to remove the start script from the run levels and start NB manually once the server is up. However, that workaround is not working for one of the servers. In looking online, others have issues, but I can't find any suggestions that are helping.
The following is hanging:
/etc/init.d/netbackup start
(hangs)
It also hangs if trying to bounce by issuing a stop while the start is hanging.
/etc/init.d/netbackup stop
(hangs)
/etc/init.d/netbackup start
A scrub on the ZFS filesystem shows no corruption.
In troubleshooting the start scripts, there doesn't appear to be one NB command being run that is causing the hang. It seems to vary. But currently, when the start scrips calls `nbemm` seems to be the primary culprit.
Running bpps -x shows that none of the MM processes are running.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.