Hello Managers,
Sorry about the late summary. The problem has just been resolved and I
was too busy working on it to post this report. First I'd like to thank
Stan Horwitz, Udo De Boer, Dr Blinn, and Alan_at_nabeth, also Compaq
Support engineers Fred Mendez and Ronald McClane.
Both Dr Blinn and Alan were correct. I had essentially two problems,
bad hardware (possibly CPU) which ended up trashing the AdvFS root file
system. I ended up rebuilding the AdvFs domains on the first disk, and
restored data on to it. The machine is actually running better than it
was before the filesystem was damaged. Hopefully, there isn't any
hardware problems after all.
Kevin
> We have a dual processor ES40 which has been rebooting on it's one
> lately. At first I'd see a lot of :
>
> "Panic (cpu 1) Processor Machine Check"
>
> when it crashes into the blue boot screen and recycles into a successful
> boot. Half the time, I'd get a message while it is booting up which
> says:
>
> "CPU1 is prevented from being rebooted
> System must be reset or power cycled to clear this state"
>
> Which I then halt and power cycle, then it boots with now problem.
>
> But now it dosen't sucessfully boot up, and I get a message
>
> "Panic (cpu 0) vfs_mount: cannot mount root
> no primary swap.... [can't read the rest]"
>
> Which it loops over and over infinitly. The reason it crashes in the
> first place is also unexplained. I don't get a crash dump. I never had
> a chance to scrutinize DecEvent. I'm trying to use the OS cd to boot
> into single user mode, but it comes up the the OS install screen.
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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Kevin Dea
UNIX System Administrator
Alpine Electronics Research of America
Received on Wed Aug 29 2001 - 17:49:49 NZST