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From: sjchen@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (shu-jen.chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,u3b.misc
Subject: Re: PANIC message???
Message-ID: <560@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 89 18:22:44 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> Whenever I run /etc/errdump, the system crashes with a 
> 	PANIC: SYSTEM BUS TIME OUT INTERRUPT
> when it gets to where it reports on bus errors.
> 
> Any ideas what is causing this?

The last 5 system panic messages are saved in NVRAM with
the pointers logged in a table in NVRAM.  These areas
did not ever get initialized.
A bug in the old errdump, it tries to read the messages
through uninitialized pointers if the system did not
have 5 panics.

Work around: Panic system five times to initialize the pointer table.