rogers@dadla.UUCP (Roger Southwick) (09/30/86)
[No matter where you go.......... there you are. Buckaroo Banzai] Greetings! About 3 or 4 weeks ago, our hardware support folks swapped out our CPU board set from our Vax 11/780 in an attempt to isolate a problem in which the system would crash with a 'CPU DOUBLE ERROR FAULT' In the meantime, we have their board set. Well, this fixed the double error problems, but now we are being plagued with 'panic: swtch' crashes! We have looked into the crash dumps, and found only that, yes indeed, the system should have paniced (in one case the process table got munged!). The problem seems to occur at random times of the day, and at random intervals apart (right now we've been running over a week with no crashes, other times the system crashes every other day). We are running 4.3BSD on the system which is configured as follows: Main cabinet: Vax 11/780, FPA, 12 Meg of DEC and Trend Data Memory with an E type memory controller. MBA # 0 RP07 MBA # 1 TU78, RM03 (tiny!) UBA # 0 3 Able VMZ-32's, 1 DEC DZ11 (unused), DEC TS11 hooked to a TU80 (for users), Interlan NI-1010 Ethernet card Network Systems PI-13 Hyperchannel card UBA # 1 2 Able VMX-32N's, DEC UDA50 DEC RA81 Any ideas, suggestions or free dynamite would be greatly appreciated. The users have already voted to change the name of the machine from 'dadla' to be 'deadla'. Please respond via E-mail, not by posting... if there's enough interest via the mail, I'll post a summary. -Roger (rogers@dadla.tek.com) BELLnet (phone): (503)-629-1911 SNAILnet (U.S. Mail): Roger Southwick Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 4600, D.S. 92-731 Beaverton, Oregon 97075