thanks to all who replied and for a quick response. this is the patch.
RONNY ELIAHU wrote:
Carl,
Contact your local DEC office and get patch for this known problem. The
file you need to get is C941227-5369.tar.Z. this is a compressed tar file
that contains the patches. README describes the problem you are experiencing
and the problem fixes as well as instruction for installation.
Following are some issues addressed in this patch..
I hope this information will help you.
Ronny
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/usr/sys/BINARY/kern_exit.o (CLD UVO102126)
CHECKSUM: 33182 29
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Patch ID: OSFV30-031-2
In a situation where a streams process on init's child list is hung,
some zombie processes will not get cleaned up from init's child list.
Resources associated with these processes are not available for re-use.
An example is when a user logs out from a LAT terminal, init does not
respawn the 'getty' process, and the LAT line becomes unavailable to
the system (eventually many LAT lines will be unavailable). This
patched version of kern_exit.o corrects the problem.
A kernel rebuild is required.
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/usr/sbin/dump
CHECKSUM: 20878 72
/usr/sbin/rdump
CHECKSUM: 45292 72
/sbin/dump
CHECKSUM: 19718 408
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Problem 1:
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Patch ID: OSFV30-013-2
The dump and rdump programs were aborting improperly. When they were
required to abort, they would kill a parent process outside of dump.
Therefore if dump were run from cron, dump would kill cron. This has
been corrected.
Problem 2: (CLD hpaqa6710)
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Patch ID: OSFV30-054-2
The (r)dump program was core dumping with SIGSEGV when an entry for an
nfs filesystem in the /etc/fstab did not begin with a backslash.
Additionally, this patch includes a correction for properly reporting
write failures.
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Received on Wed Jan 04 1995 - 15:22:45 NZDT