SUMMARY: RE: Oracle crash...gettimeofday error Clairification

From: McGuinness Todd <mcguinness_at_nagra.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:18:40 +0200

Well this appears to be an Oracle bug after conferring with our engineers
and reading the last mail message by Dr. Thomas Blinn.

Thanks for all helpful information sent. This list is great!!!

Cheers,

tm

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Thomas.Blinn_at_Compaq.com [mailto:tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com]
Sent: mardi, 18. septembre 2001 15:10
To: McGuinness Todd
Subject: Re: Oracle crash...gettimeofday error Clairification


Did you read the gettimeofday(2) reference page for V4.0G?

There are only two possible errors from the call, both of
which are either configuration or application errors. If
the Oracle process is failing, it's either because it does
not have the right permissions (see the reference page) or
because it passed a garbage pointer to one of the things
that it creates and hands to the kernel (in other words,
it's an application bug or a configuration error, NOT a
"system related crash".

Ask Oracle to provide you a copy of the actual Oracle source
code that is issuing the message -- and then ask Oracle why
they believe their code is correctly reporting the error; you
can't even tell from their error message which of the two
standard UNIX error codes was returned by the kernel.

Tom

> Ok this should have come out like this.
>
> I am getting a strange Oracle crash relating to Tru64 Unix Version 4.0G
> patch level 3. This is a system related crash, because Oracle says
> so(helpful), and I don't have any more information to go on.
>
> Below is necessary log and trace information.
>
> Thanks for any info, has anyone seen this before?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Todd M. McGuinness
> Systems Engineer
> _*_
>
> Oracle alert log:
>
> Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 972
> Current log# 3 seq# 972 mem# 0:
> /usr1/oracle/redo/CASDB8/log1/log3CASDB8.dbf
> Current log# 3 seq# 972 mem# 1:
> /usr1/oracle/data/CASDB8/log2/log3CASDB8.dbf
> Mon Sep 17 11:49:40 2001
> Errors in file /users/local/oracle/admin/CASDB8/bdump/lgwr_31578.trc:
> ORA-07211: slgcs: gettimeofday error, unable to get wall clock.
> Compaq Tru64 UNIX Error: 83: System call timed out
> Mon Sep 17 11:49:40 2001
> Errors in file /users/local/oracle/admin/CASDB8/udump/ora_21254.trc:
> ORA-00603: ORACLE server session terminated by fatal error
> ORA-00449: background process 'LGWR' unexpectedly terminated with error
7211
> ORA-07211: slgcs: gettimeofday error, unable to get wall clock.
>
> ::::::::::::::
> ora_21227.trc
> ::::::::::::::
> Dump file /users/local/oracle/admin/CASDB8/udump/ora_21227.trc
> Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning option
> JServer Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> ORACLE_HOME = /users/local/oracle/product/8.1.7.2.0
> System name: OSF1
> Node name: es4002
> Release: V4.0
> Version: 1530
> Machine: alpha
> Instance name: CASDB8
> Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1
> Oracle process number: 232
> Unix process pid: 21227, image: oracle_at_es4002 (TNS V1-V3)
>
> *** 2001-09-17 11:49:40.106
> *** SESSION ID:(264.49336) 2001-09-17 11:49:40.062
> kgefec: fatal error 0
> *** 2001-09-17 11:49:40.108
> ksedmp: internal or fatal error
> ORA-00603: ORACLE server session terminated by fatal error
> ORA-00449: background process 'LGWR' unexpectedly terminated with error
7211
> ORA-07211: slgcs: gettimeofday error, unable to get wall clock.
> ORA-00449: background process 'LGWR' unexpectedly terminated with error
7211
> ORA-07211: slgcs: gettimeofday error, unable to get wall clock.
> ----- Call Stack Trace -----
>
>
> Todd M. McGuinness
> Systems Engineer
> _*_
> NAGRAVISION SA
> Kudelski Group
> _*_
> Tel. : +41 21 732 03 11
> Direct: +41 21 732 0623
> Fax : +41 21 732 03 00
> E-mail : mcguinness_at_nagra.com
>

Tom
 
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