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From: Lucky Leavell <scomisc@unixpress.com>
Subject: Re: SCO OSR5.0.6 System Crashed during LoneTAR Verify
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:22:27 GMT

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Bela Lubkin wrote:

> Tony Lawrence wrote:
> 
> > Do you really want to go through the trouble of saving, extracting, and
> > analyzing a dump?  Do you even have the tools and knowledge to
> > do so?
> > 
> > Unless of course you are planning to throw a bunch of cash SCO's
> > way and have them look at it?
> 
Hardly, I already do enough of that <G>...

> I have to firmly disagree with you on this.  You don't have to analyze a
> dump yourself, you are typically going to go ask someone for help on it
> -- whether that's the newsgroups, SCO, or a local consultant.
  
First, let me say I have the utmost repsect for Tony and his opinions and
certainly his treasure trove of a web site.  Perhaps it is because I was a
systems programmer (Xerox CP-V) in a former life but the crash tool and
the dump from a crash do provide important clues beyond the panic display
like the currently scheduled processes.

One excellent reason to go this route is the thought of having a novice
try to write down all those registers and hex contents without making a
mistake, not to mention the time required while their users are breathing
down their neck.  (I am nearly an hour away so I can't just pop over
myself.)

In this case I ARE the consultant (bad grammar intentional for emphasis)!

I like Tome Melvin's script which runs the crash analysis:
        panic
        stack
        trace
        user
        proc, and, of course,
        quit

 against the dump and emails the result though I might be tempted to save
the dump to a file before cleaning it out of swap all without requiring
any user intervention or delaying the system's coming back up.

Thank you,
Lucky

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