to this end, redirect your console to a serial port and put a serial recorder on it. they cost maybe 60$ but can be handy to catch output from panics.
j. Sent from Jasons' hand held On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Reginald Beardsley <pulask...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Having a console window open and checking it periodically can be very > helpful. Such events will get logged to the console. I recently had a > correctable event show up in mine. There's probably a way to have the events > trigger an email if desired. > > Have Fun! > Reg > > --- On Sat, 1/19/13, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash >> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> >> Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 12:30 PM >> Hi, >> Has someone mentioned using 'fmdump' ? >> >> With this tool I discovered that I had issues with an >> unreliable disk >> controller on my workstation with the consequence of OI >> freezing approx. >> every 2months. >> In my case ZFS is getting the fault and standby until >> resolution of the >> issue, thus yielding an indefinite wait for disk I/O to >> resume. >> Best >> >> Aurelien >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Reginald Beardsley >> <pulask...@yahoo.com>wrote: >> >>> One time when I happened to look, I saw that the Ultra >> 60 I used at work >>> had been up for over 18 months. >>> >>> If a sys admin told me he wanted to reboot a system >> once a week, "just in >>> case" he'd be looking for a new job very soon or else >> sent back to the PC >>> support pool. >>> >>> BTW The reason that 11/780 era admins did not want to >> shut machines down >>> was primarily the problems posed by hundreds, if not >> thousands of >>> mechanical connectors some of which if allowed to cool >> would lose contact. >>> The cure was simple, but tedious, you went around >> reseating circuit boards >>> and cabling and powered up again. There are a lot of >> boards and cables in a >>> well populated 11/780 especially if its got an >> FPS-120B, Gould-DeAnza >>> graphics processor and a Versatec plotter attached >> along w/ the usual disk >>> and tape drives. >>> >>> One summer weekend in Dallas, my group moved across >> town. So our >>> workstations spent the day in a moving van probably at >> 130+ F. Monday >>> morning several would not boot until I went around and >> reseated the disk >>> drive cables. >>> >>> Voodoo has no place in computing. >>> >>> Have Fun! >>> Reg >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> LARCHER Aurélien | >> KTH, School of Computer Science and >> Communication >> Work: +46 (0) 8 790 71 42 | >> Lindstedtsvägen 5, Plan 5 >> Mob.: +46 (0) 7 09 46 40 17 | 100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Praise the Caffeine embeddings ... >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss