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From: jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Need help with kernel message from AIX 2.2.1 !!!
Summary: No longer urgent, just curious
Keywords: AIX, RT, impending doom
Message-ID: <218@gort.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 90 04:16:23 GMT
References: <212@gort.cs.utexas.edu> <2949@awdprime.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <2949@awdprime.UUCP> jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091) writes:
>In article <212@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes:
>>    I keep getting this message from the AIX 2.2.1 kernel:
>>  Core failure: 255
>
>This means that core() couldn't create the core file.  The most likely reason
>is that it doesn't have enough room on the disk.  Look for an old core file
>that may indicate what's dumping, or else liberate some space and look for
>it when next it occurs.

  There are no core files on the machine. Also, I changed /etc/skulker a
long time ago so that it wouldn't remove core files left lying around. 
  I've already tried dumping core in a number of ways and it always
succeeds [so what else is new? :-)  ]
  I don't think that disk space is the issue since I haven't been close
to filling up in a long time.
  But, I tested your hypothesis by filling up a partition and then having
a program dump core. It gave the message:

   Core failure: 28

  A promising start.

 I stopped thinking that the 255 error was critical
after I was told that it was coming from core.c. Now, I'm just curious as
hell. 
 Since AIX 2.2.1 is going the way of the Dodo bird and Multics,
I didn't think I'd get a lot of response, but I never realized people
would be *this* apathetic.  :-\

   Thanks for the tip; Maybe someone will take the time to figure out
what's going on in core.c  .....

     peace,

     ---Jason    jason@cs.utexas.edu   (512) 326-9102