Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!mcvax!enea!erix!mike From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: 4.2 died on our VAX. Message-ID: <301@erix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 09:00:12 EST Article-I.D.: erix.301 Posted: Wed Mar 14 09:00:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Mar-84 07:15:47 EST Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 16 Normally when UNIX panics we get a dump which we sometimes look at to see what happened. The other day our VAX just died. It continued to run, echoed text from terminals etc. but just hung if you tried to give it any commands. It turned out that one of our disk controllers was playing up. We swap and page on two disks (hp0 and hp1) and hp1 just gave up. This was quickly repaired and we were up again after an hour. Is there any way to force a dump in these conditions? Why did the VAX just play dumb? Mike Williams {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!enea!erix!mike or mike@erix.UUCP