Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!ames!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: errdead? Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 89 13:46:49 GMT References: <8906271255.AA16133@ocdis01.af.mil> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 12 That's errdead(1M-att) babbling at you, trying to find buffered error messages that presumably would not have been flushed by the system immediately preceding a crash. It's invoked without args in /etc/rc, and stares at the last dump in its search. The "unreasonable" diagnostic is errdead telling you that whatever it found in the dump area is not considered a real dump; it found a dump time there which was not within 3 days of "now," so it abandoned the effort. It would appear that your system did indeed fall as hard as possible, without time to execute a dump. No clues... --Karl