Thanks to Francesca_at_HP/Compaq for the following.
The message FATAL: Mini-Header out of sync. Dying... indicates that the 
output
file is corrupted. A workaround is to run collect reading the corrupted 
file and writting a new file.
Example: collect -p "corrupt file" -f "new file name"
Andy Pavitt wrote:
> Wanting to use collect to get some perf stats, its dies with the 
> following error.
>
> /usr/sbin/collect -ol -F -p 
> /var/adm/collect.dated/collect_init_at_16-Sep-00:05:02.cgz -sd -Ddsk551
>
> FATAL: Mini-Header out of sync. Dying
>
> setld -i | grep -i COL
> COLUTIL200           installed              Collect Utilities version 
> 2.01 FTP
> OSFPAT00017500520    installed              Patch: collect incorrectly 
> reports network interface load(System Administration Patches)
> OSFPAT00079900520    installed              Patch: Fixes several 
> problems with collect utility(System Administration Patches)
>
>
> I saw only one other reference to this same error when googleing, no 
> summary though.
> http://aa11.cjb.net/tru64_unix_managers/2001/04/0168.html
>
> Any ideas/help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Andy 
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Received on Tue Oct 29 2002 - 10:08:39 NZDT