psiders@rtchem.d.umn.edu (Paul Siders) (01/10/91)
The chem department, U of MN - Duluth, is running a 3B2/310 as the center
of a departmental StarLAN network. The machine is madonna.d.umn.edu .
The 3B2 is running UNIX V 3.2. Beginning
two days ago we have been getting some "bus errors":
When booting up:
/etc/rc2.d/S86win3b 133 Bus Error - core dumped
/etc/rc3.d/S86win3b 228 Bus Error - core dumped
When sending mail using elm:
sh: ### Bus error - core dumped (where ### is a 3-digit number,
different every time)
then the message is lost, neither sent nor returned nor queued
I reloaded /usr, /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d from backup tape.
I ran diagnostics (dgn soak) for several hours. No hardware errors were
reported.
I would appreciate suggestions (please).
Is this a hardware error? Is this a software error?
How can I isolate and/or fix it?
e-mail: psiders@rtchem.d.umn.edu
or root@madonna.d.umn.edu (although mail on madonna is suspect,
as described above)