A105@UWOCC1.BITNET (Brent Sterner) (01/31/86)
Yesterday our 8600 got hung up; our operators are new and eventually
reloaded without getting a crash dump. So I have no idea what happened.
Upon reload, the following occurs:
ERRFMT - ERROR ACCESSING ERROR LOG FILE
%RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
This repeats a dozen times or so, and then:
ERRFMT - DELETING ERRFMT PROCESS
ERROR LOG FILE UNWRITABLE
TO RESTART ERRFMT PROCESS, USE "@SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP ERRFMT"
Of course this simply causes the dozen errors to be repeated.
My 1st thought was that the file was bad. I renamed it away. No effect.
(Q: should I have created an empty file to assist ERRFMT? That seems a bit
silly.)
Any suggestions?
Brent Sterner
Computing & Communications Services
Natural Sciences Building
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
N6A 5B7
Telephone (519)679-2151 (secretary)
2167 (direct)garry@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Garry Wiegand) (02/05/86)
ERRFMT runs with very few privileges and not much brains; it dies easily. First make sure SYS$ERRORLOG exists and is writable by "system". And second, if you are using disk quotas on the system disk, make sure that [1,*] (I think [1,4] and [1,6]?) have been given explicit large/infinite quotas. We still have one machine where these measures have not been sufficient. More ideas, anyone? garry wiegand