I made a (feeble) attempt to cancel that last message - it's quite
likely that everyone doesn't *need* a summary because I forwarded all
of the responses to the entire list. Major goof (gotta be careful
about that ^Z in EVE/TPU when you're trying to hit ^A. :^(
If this message is redundant and annoying - I'm sorry. For those who
really prefer a _summary_ - here's the initial post ...
> In a Model 2000/300, we added 128Mb - up to 192Mb total. Normally, it's
> great ... except we're still running OSF/1 v2.0b (with that little bug in
> the ethernet driver) and crash occasionally.
>
> Here's the problem. We crash, the system comes back up and attempts to
> write a crash dump (a >200Mb file). It fails, but is holding onto the
> fact that a crash dump file needs to be written the next time we reboot.
>
> Anyone know what we need to do to clear that bit out? It delays the boot
> a bit, but became a slightly more serious problem when we tried up upgrade
> to v3.0b (we had problems during the upgrade attempt and have backed down
> for the time being) ...
o The common answer was "savecore -c" (which worked beautifully) to mark
the dump invalid without copying it.
o The second answer (which we may use - I suspect this problem will be
with us for a while) is to use "/usr/sbin/rcmgr set SAVECORE_FLAGS M".
It's also possible to change the dump directory to something other
than /var/adm/crash ...
The notes about the "rcmgr" approach conflicted a bit - one indicated it
would prevent the system from creating core dump files, another said it
would keep the system from going into single-user mode if a core dump
could not be written. Another look in our /etc/rc.config shows that we
don't have an entry for SAVECORE_FLAGS, but I'm not sure it's a problem.
Thanks to:
Mike Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu>
Dave Cherkus <cherkus_at_UniMaster.COM>
Eric Bishop <ebishop_at_vt.edu>
Larry Scott USG <scott_at_zk3.dec.com>
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
ernie_at_MasPar.COM (Ernie Rael)
sarasin_at_yosemite.cop.dec.com
"nagroM W sirdI" <im_at_uvo.dec.com>
luchini_at_siberia.ups-tlse.fr (Marco Luchini)
Jonathan.J.B.Buchanan_at_Oda-3.CS.CSH.COM
jacy_at_fluid.mro.dec.com
... and I promise I won't send this message AGAIN. :^)
andrew. (brennan_at_hal.hahnemann.edu)
Received on Tue Feb 21 1995 - 12:07:29 NZDT