[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

[Reginald Beardsley]

Having a console window open and checking it periodically can be very helpful.   Such events will get logged to the console. I recently had a correctable event show up in mine. There's probably a way to have the events trigger an email if desired.

Have Fun!
Reg

--- On Sat, 1/19/13, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 12:30 PM
> Hi,
> Has someone mentioned using 'fmdump' ?
> 
> With this tool I discovered that I had issues with an
> unreliable disk
> controller on my workstation with the consequence of OI
> freezing approx.
> every 2months.
> In my case ZFS is getting the fault and standby until
> resolution of the
> issue, thus yielding an indefinite wait for disk I/O to
> resume.
> Best
> 
> Aurelien
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > One time when I happened to look, I saw that the Ultra
> 60 I used at work
> > had been up for over 18 months.
> >
> > If a sys admin told me he wanted to reboot a system
> once a week, "just in
> > case" he'd be looking for a new job very soon or else
> sent back to the PC
> > support pool.
> >
> > BTW The reason that 11/780 era admins did not want to
> shut machines down
> > was primarily the problems posed by hundreds, if not
> thousands of
> > mechanical connectors some of which if allowed to cool
> would lose contact.
> >  The cure was simple, but tedious, you went around
> reseating circuit boards
> > and cabling and powered up again. There are a lot of
> boards and cables in a
> > well populated 11/780 especially if its got an
> FPS-120B, Gould-DeAnza
> > graphics processor and a Versatec plotter attached
> along w/ the usual disk
> > and tape drives.
> >
> > One summer weekend in Dallas, my group moved across
> town.  So our
> > workstations spent the day in a moving van probably at
> 130+ F.  Monday
> > morning several would not boot until I went around and
> reseated the disk
> > drive cables.
> >
> > Voodoo has no place in computing.
> >
> > Have Fun!
> > Reg
> >
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