Hi Managers,
I have an alphaserver es40 with tru64 unix 5.1a which is having
problems. On the booting it reach a point (related to the filesystems) in
which it starts to send a couple of error messages to the console and then
restart, after a process of DUMPING. However the repeated messages
are put too fast and I cannot stop it neither with the "Pause" key nor
with the classical sequence Ctrl-S.
I still don't know which is exactly the problem but it seems to be
related (from which the little I can read before it restarts) to a SCSI
problem, perhaps some disk is having problems, which make the operating
system to crash, with a DUMP: ... messages to finish.
I also tried to go single user mode ("boot -fl s" at console prompt) and
tried to mount the /var filesystem to check the /var/crash directory.
However while in single user mode when I tried "mount /var" the system
answered with a "Device Busy" message which I don't understand since the
only filesystem mode mounted at that stage is the root device.
So how could I check what is exactly the problem with this alphaserver?
Thanks in advance.
---sram
"Don't listen to what I say; listen to what I mean!" --Feynman
Salvador Ramirez Flandes PROFC, Universidad de Concepcion, CHILE
http://www.profc.udec.cl/~sram mailto:sram_at_profc.udec.cl
Received on Sun Jul 21 2002 - 22:56:25 NZST