My original question..
> What does the following mean?? (What is on line 464??)
>
> version: SunOS Release 4.1.3_U1 (OPTICAL1) #6: Tue Mar 26 15:58:40 MST
> 1996
> Copyright (c) 1983-1993, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> machine name: optical1
> machine type: SUN 4M/SparcStation 10
> time of crash: Wed May 1 13:35:05 1996
> age of system: 27 days, 17 hr., 13 min.
> panicstr: ASSERT failed in ../generic/osd.c Line 464
The vmcore file was sent to Epoch (the people who wrote the Epoch Software that
drives our Optical Jukebox. They suggested that we run the olds_post_install
(OnLine Disk Suite) program to fix up some incompatibilites between ODS and
the Epoch Kernal changes. Hopefully this will fix the problem..
Replies:
From: Andy J. Stefancik 237-2164 <ajs6143@eerpf001.ca.boeing.com>
Date: Thu May 2, 9:28
It means your kernel is failing to allocate memory.
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From: Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} <Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au>
Date: Fri May 3, 9:07
A backtrace would be of more interest - that would tell us more about what
the system was doing when this failed.
My suspicion is that you have a third party optical scsi disk driver that
is having a bad day. I don't recall an osd.c amongst the kernel source
that comes to do kernel builds in generic...
l & h,
kev
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From: Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services
<Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au>
Date: Fri May 3, 22:04
X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
In the source code for this particular file there is an ASSERT()
function call. If this call returns false then the message is printed
and the system is halted because something happened that wasn't
supposed to. The file in question is in th edirectory relative to where
the kernel was built, ie /sys/sun4m/OPTICAL1/../generic/osd.c.
My guess is that this is the driver for the optical scsi disk, so you
should contact the vendor who sold you th eunit and report the panic to
them.
Note that the source file may not be on your system, there might only
be an osd.o which is th ecompiled object.
regards,
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