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- From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Looking for advice on tracking down a system crash
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 12:11:27 -0500
- Organization: Science Applications Intl Corp - Dayton, Ohio
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- I have a system running VMS 5.4. We have batch jobs that run one
- process per job that control communications cards. The software was recently
- upgraded from VMS 4.7 to 5.4. We have seen a few ramdom non-reproducible
- system crashes recently. Every system crash is due to the same executable.
- Each bugcheck is a Machine check while in kernal mode. I am looking for
- advice on how to track this down. I have saved the system dump files but
- not knowing how to read them puts me at a disadvantage. I have suggested
- adding a set process/dump before the executable is run so that is in place
- now but we have not had a crash yet.
-
- Using debug is out of the question since the device the executable
- controls is realtime. Would compiling with debug but not linking with debug
- also help? I am looking for any help I can get since I am experienced at
- debugging but not real-time devices or those that cause system crashes!
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- -Earle
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- Earle Ake Internet: <ake@dayton.saic.com> NSI-DECnet (SPAN): 28276::ake
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