Sorry folks (am I embarrassed!) Bad memory never means replacing a
hard-drive (I'm not a terribly experienced Unix Admin but even I know
that!). I had replaced a bad drive the week before on another machine and
got my summaries confused. My apologies.
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Thanks to all for helping with this. Bottom line was some faulty memory.
Answers ranged from 'transient errors' to 'call Compaq'. I did call Compaq
Service who reviewed the binary.errlog and determined a problem with memory
in one of two slots. Field service replaced one, reseated the other and the
problem seems to have been fixed.
One particularly interesting comment:
Are all your memory cards the same size?
I get this message on one of my boxes after replacing hardware and long
calls w/ Compaq/digital the rep realized that there is a 'shell game' that
the firmware pulls on the hardware. This shell game only happens when the
memory cards are of different sizes.
Note: We found out that Compaq Analyze 2.1 seems to read a samples file:
the older version of CA ver2.10 is the problem or has the feature
where if you do #ca analyze it runs out to the CA examples directory
and runs against the sample binary.errlog files not the real node=ODIN
binary.errlog....
suggestion is to get you to install the new version CA ver3.1 and then
ca analyze will look at the default binary.errlog and has the lastest
and greatest new theory rules for ds20e, es40 etc in it ....
Thanks again,
Andy
ORIGINAL QUESTION
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Hi,
I just came across this messages in the /var/adm/messages file:
Sep 7 13:31:33 odin vmunix: WARNING: too many System corrected
errors detected on cpu 0. Reporting suspended.
There was nothing related to this in here prior to Sep 7 and nothing since
Sep 7 -- should I be concerned or was it a passing thing?
This is on a DS20E running 4.0F (not sure of what service pack).
Thanks,
Andy
Andy Cohen
Database Systems Administrator
Cognex Corporation
1 Vision Drive
Natick, MA 01760
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Received on Tue Oct 09 2001 - 18:49:39 NZDT