[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

[Jason Matthews]

to this end, redirect your console to a serial port and put a serial recorder on it. they cost maybe 60$ but can be handy to catch output from panics. 

j. 

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On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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>> 
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