Thanks to Dr. Tom Blinn. His response is below.
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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 96 11:01:40 -0400
From: Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646 <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
To: Patrick O'Brien <pobrien_at_cfa.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: panic
> Greetings,
>
> Our AXP 3000/300 running DU 3.2C Rev. 148 crashed with the following
> entries in /var/adm/messages. Can anyone give me any clues on this? Or
> is this info too little to specify the problem?
There is only one part that really matters:
> Sep 3 22:22:35 cfa vmunix: MACHINE CHECK type 0x660 Machine check abort
> Sep 3 22:22:38 cfa vmunix: panic (cpu 0): Machine check - Hardware error
Your system crashed because the hardware malfunctioned. If you have a
contract with Digital to maintain your hardware, then you can call us to
come and fix it (which won't really happen unless there is a pattern of
these crashes pointing to a consistent cause). If you maintain it your-
self, then you need to read your self-maintenance documentation to find out
how to interpret the crash data output.
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/U20 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698
Technology Partnership Engineering Phone: (603) 881-0646
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Received on Wed Sep 04 1996 - 21:54:00 NZST