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From: marsh@umt.UUCP (Paul Marsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Wanted:   Crash Dump Analysis Tips
Message-ID: <680@umt.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 19:22:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: umt.680
Posted: Thu May 21 19:22:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 18:48:57 EDT
Organization: University of Montana, Missoula MT
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Keywords: VAX 11/785   -   Ultrix 1.2

I'm not an 'adb' expert {yet}, but days like today make me wish that
I was.  We experienced a number of system crashes which took most of
the day to track down.  Has anyone compiled any information that would
help in looking through a crash dump?  A few years ago I attended a
TOPS-20 session at DECUS, where the speaker(s) had compiled a "cook-
book" for looking at TOPS-20 dumps, which was very helpful.  Something
like that would be nice, if it exists.  Is there any information that
details the possible causes of the various "panics:"?  Thanks in advance.

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