SUMMARY: Panic error event while vdump.

From: Carlos Sanchez <csanchez_at_cirp.es>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:00:11 +0200

Hello managers,

The original question was:

> Sometimes our DEC Alpha 2100 has a panic error event. The situation is
> always the same:
>
> While the machine is making a backup copy of the all AdvFS filesets
> (vdump using clone filesets), it (the machine) shutdown and comes up
> againg working fine.
>
> We make a level 0 vdump once per week, and an incremental vdump the
> other days without problems but, once per 4 or 5 months the machine
> crash.
>
> The uerf command gives the following information:
> ...

Thank you very much to:

 Louis Bouchard <bouchard_l_at_decus.fr>
 Martyn Johnson <Martyn.Johnson_at_cl.cam.ac.uk>
 Hellebo Knut <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
 Anil Khullar <Anil.Khullar_at_mailhub.gc.cuny.edu>

Is is a known bug which is listed in the README of the 04/05/96 patch
release form DEC which says:

PROBLEM: (....) (Patch ID: OSF360-350163)
********

A system using AdvFS can panic with an "ADVFS EXCEPTION" panic while a
thread is doing a directory search of an AdvFS fielset, ...

I will call to my local support service.

Thank you to everybody,
-- 
J. Carlos Sanchez Rivas <csanchez_at_cirp.es>
Responsable de Sistemas Hardware
Centro de I.L.L. Ramon Pi~neiro, GALICIA (SPAIN)
Received on Thu Aug 22 1996 - 09:13:47 NZST

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