Several people came to the rescue with the console variable auto_action
which should be set to BOOT. It was set to HALT.
Thanks for the usual fast and accurate response to all who replied,
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maurice.steyvers_at_ICA.UNIMAAS.NL
> [SMTP:maurice.steyvers_at_ICA.UNIMAAS.NL]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:33 AM
> To: David.Wigg_at_wang.com
> Subject: RE: No autoboot after a panic. DU4.0D/Alphaserver 400/233
>
> Take a look at console variable auto_action (it should be BOOT).
>
> Maurice Steyvers
> Systems programmer
> University Maastricht
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wigg, David [mailto:David.Wigg_at_wang.com]
> Sent: 25/08/99 11:37
> To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
> Subject: No autoboot after a panic. DU4.0D/Alphaserver 400/233
>
>
> Hello Managers,
> I have a strangeness with an
> Alphaserver 400/233 recently upgraded from DU3.2d to DU4.0D patch3
> (including the firmware update).
>
> The system is taken to single user mode once a day to do a backup to
> tape. After the backup completes, the system reboots to multiuser. This is
> all scripted and runs unattended.
>
> On 3.2 this worked fine. Since the upgrade though, about once a week
> or so, the system panics with a kernel memory fault during the shutdown
> part
> of the reboot to multiuser. I am working on this problem at the moment,
> but
> the real strangeness is that after the crash the system will not auto
> reboot, even though I have set boot_osflags A, and set bootdef_dev
> DKA0(the
> bootdisk)
>
> I really need the system to come back up automatically as this all
> takes place overnight and jobs are set to run after it completes. What
> happens however, is that the system crashes to the firmware prompt and
> just
> sits there. When the operator turns up, he just types "b" and up it comes
> again.
>
> Am I missing something? Is it possible to have the system come up
> again automatically after a crash?
>
> By the way, the upgrade was performed by way of a fresh install.
>
> Thanks
>
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > David Wigg
> > Senior Consultant - Solutions Integration
> >
> > Getronics
> > Phone: +44(0)161 848 4146
> > Email : david.wigg_at_getronics.com
> >
> > mailto:david.wigg_at_wang.com
> >
Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 15:27:10 NZST