Chapter 13: Troubleshooting system-level problems

Table of contents

• Chapter 13: Troubleshooting system-level problems
  • Other troubleshooting documentation
  • Preparing to recover from problems
    • Recording your root disk layout
  • Restoring a corrupted root filesystem
  • System crashes
    • Recovering from a system panic
    • Recovering after a power failure
    • Automatic reboot
  • Analyzing system failures
    • Traps, faults, and exceptions
    • Console panic information
    • Getting the EIP number
    • Checking error messages
    • Checking system files with error histories
    • Checking system configuration
    • Generating a system dump image with sysdump (ADM)
  • Examining a memory dump with crash(ADM)
    • Studying a panic
    • Additional help from SCO Support
  • Common system-wide problems
  • cron, at, and batch troubleshooting
    • cron daemon is not running
    • at command fails: cannot change mode of job
  • Runaway processes