Re: SunOS 4.1.3 Crashing

Yes, we had over 15 crashes in 4 months. In our case it appears to have been caused by the Networker backup system. We've applied a temporary fix to get around the problem until Networker is upgraded.

In article <47rdui$bdg_at_what.whytel.com>, brad.stauf_at_why.net says...
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>tjb839_at_zacatecas.optimum.com (Tim Boemker) wrote:
>>I manage a Sun SPARC running Oracle and very little else. Lately, I've
>>had a lot of crashes (three this week), and I suspect that Oracle's
>>stepping on some bug in the OS. I haven't seen any console messages
>>because the machine's used remotely, and there haven't been any crash
>>dumps, so I have no idea what that bug might be.
>>Has anyone had a similar experience?
>>Tim Boemker
>>Optimum Group
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>Yes, we have at Greyhound. Unfortunately we haven't made any progress on
 fixing
>it. We are working with Sun and have captured a couple of core dumps
 from the
>crashes but nothing yet. We also applied their latest jumbo patch
 (Number 34?
>not sure) and it didn't help. I will post an update if we make any
 progress.
>FYI we are on Sun Solaris 2.4 running System V 4.0 Unix.
>brad stauf DOD# 1824
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Received on Thu Nov 16 1995 - 00:00:00 CET