My problem related to an application intermittently causing a kernel panic
on a DEC 3000/600 running DU 4.0B with patch kit 4. The same application
had previously run on pre-4.0 DU (and other OS's) without difficulty.
I received two responses. Thank you both.
Larry Griffith <larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu> mentioned that he too had
recently upgraded a 3000/600 to V4.0B and that his firmware had to be at
version 7.0 (mine is 6.9). I've not yet tried this.
Matthew Lucius <mlucius_at_dwc.edu> suggested a lack of binary compatibility
(at V4.0B) with previous versions. I re-built the app in question on a 4.0B
system and indeed this initially seemed to be the solution. Unfortunately,
continued testing once again induced the kernel panic.
Also at Matthew's suggestion, I ran dbx against the files left in
/var/adm/crash and learned that the crash occurred in a call to vm_mem_init.
To my eye, the parameters passed to this function seem suspicious as thay're
all 0xffffffffffffffff.
We'll be contacting Digital support.
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Chuck Norem <chuck_norem_at_aspentech.com>
Aspen Technology, Inc.
Bothell, WA
Received on Tue Jul 22 1997 - 23:37:33 NZST