08-12-2003
Getting someone else involved is the next logical step. Waiting on approval from management to do so. Got to love corperations!! LOL
I will do my best to answer your questions...
Looks as though it is running SCO Xenix System V Version 2.3.4, 386 OS
As for the hardware, this is running in a Compaq ProLinea 4/33 with a whopping (single) 120 MB Quantam HDD and 8 MB RAM. The only other real hardware this has is a multiport Arnet adapter card connecting to an RS-232 Arnet board for the modems and the printer. Not sure what else I can tell you about the hardware.
You commented that you didn't know anyone still used file system based pipes. This system is at least ten years old, should have been put out to pasture nine years ago in my opinion. For whatever reason, no one ever felt the need to upgrade for whatever reason. Currently we are working on locating spare equipment to hopefully be able to replace this unit. From what I have read in the software documentation, all I have available software wise, is an upgrade. I have not been able to locate the original software package.
I have been able to successfully navigate through the file and directory structures. So far, the only problems I have found is in trying to set up a different user, it comes up with errors trying to open or modify different files.
The system will boot as far as the login prompt. Once the user and password is entered it goes nuts with the previsouly mentioned errors. That made me think it would be worth a shot to create another user and try to log in that way and maybe get around the bad section of the HDD.
Not sure what else I can tell you that may be of use. I do appreciate your time and input on this. Although, I don't expect any miracles, just thought someone out there can save me some aggrevation on this.
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Description
This section explains what happens when the system crashes and shows how to analyze crash dumps.
When the system crashes voluntarily it prints a message on the console in the form:
panic: explanation
The system takes a dump on a mass storage peripheral device or the network, and then invokes an automatic reboot procedure as described in
Unless there is some unexpected inconsistency in the state of the file systems due to hardware or software failure, the system then resumes
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The most common cause of system failures is hardware failure. In all cases there is the possibility that hardware or software error pro-
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IO err in push
hard IO err in swap
The system encountered an error when trying to write to the paging device or an error in reading critical information from a disk
drive. Fix your disk if it is broken or unreliable.
timeout table overflow
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Exception Condition
An unexpected system error has occurred. The exception types are as follows:
---------------------------------------------------------------
Mnemonic Description
---------------------------------------------------------------
INT External interrupt
MOD TLB modification exception
TLBL TLB miss exception (load or instruction fetch)
TLBS TLB miss exception (store)
AdEL Address error exception (load or instruction fetch)
AdES Address error exception (store)
IBE Bus error exception (for an instruction fetch)
DBE Bus error exception (for a data load or store)
Sys Sys call exception
Bp Breakpoint exception
CpU Coprocessor unusable exception
Ovf Arithmetic overflow exception
---------------------------------------------------------------
KSP not valid
This indicates either a problem in the system or failing hardware.
init died
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When the system crashes, it attempts to write an image of memory into the back end of the primary swap area. After the system is rebooted,
the program runs and preserves a copy of this core image and the current system in a specified directory for later access. See for
details.
To analyze a dump, you should begin by running with the flag on the core dump.
See Also
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