[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

[Aurélien Larcher]

If you use the -m flags to get the details what does it say ?

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:15 PM, David Scharbach
<david.scharbach at mac.com>wrote:

> $ fmdump
> TIME                 UUID                                 SUNW-MSG-ID EVENT
> Jan 17 20:08:28.9193 809adc23-290c-c3bb-bcde-c3d4c5c1ebe6 SUNOS-8000-KL
> Diagnosed
> $ uptime
>  16:12pm  up 1 day 20:04,  2 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.14, 0.21
>
> Given today is the 19th and such, I think that timestamp on the fmdump is
> near when the OI server last crashed.  I don't know what the event means.
>  Can you let me know?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 2013-01-19, at 12:30 PM, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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> >
> >
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