houghton@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Ric) (08/03/90)
One of my users has taken a DN3000 (SR9.7-150Meg HD-4 Meg) to France
to demostrate a model that he has developed. He has ran into some
problems that with which I'm not familiar. If the following
description has any meaning to you, could you please make some
suggestion as to what I should try.
-The system crashed, nothing at all worked, the
-screen showed a negative image of the display that had been on, and I
-had no choice but to switch off the system. (Agian, nothing
-worked--not any key on the keboard nor the mouse nor any thing. I
-tried various reboots and I thought I was successful, as
-the system passed all self tests and said that it was successful at
-salvaging boot volume. However, it stopped with the following
-message:
- AEGIS-DOMAIN/IX Kernal, revision 9.7....DATE...
- Could not create R/W scratch file, status code:000E0003
- Could not create Installed-Global-Table
- F 120011
- 8085FE:3152
- (and then the prompt)
-
-(Incidentally, it is very hot in the office, and I suppose that heat
-could have been the problen in the first place.)
Thank you,
Ric Houghton
houghton@cs.indiana.edukrowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (08/03/90)
status code 000E0003 is a "name already exists" error. One of the continuing irritations of Apollo's software is that the error messages never tell you *which* name/file/directory is the problem. "R/W scratch file" doesn't tell me much. It is almost certainly a file in /sys/node_data (or for diskless machines, the `node_data directory). My guess would be to try deleting the "global_rws" and "global_readonly" files since that is where the system allocates temp memory. Also try clearing out the `node_data/ptmp and `node_data/tmp directories. If you have a stand-alone machine, put it into service mode and use the level-2 boot shell commands. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)