topic Re: Memory fault in Operating System - HP-UX

Memory fault

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 03:47:46 GMT

Hi,

Config :K580 with HP-UX 10.20.

I have a user "ia". When I try to login with this user it gives an error "Memory fault" and comes out. Also from the root user if I do
# su - ia
It gives Memory fault and comes out to root user. But I am able to login with other users w/o any problem.

What could be the problem ? What needs to be checked?

Thanks,
Raje.

Re: Memory fault

Tom Geudens — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 03:52:44 GMT

Hi,
What's the entry in the /etc/passwd file for the user "ia" ? Does it use an ordinary shell, or does it start another program (that may cause the memory problems) ?

Hope this gets you started,
Tom

Re: Memory fault

Steven Sim Kok Leong — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 03:55:04 GMT

Hi,

Did the memory fault generate a core dump? Identify what is causing the core dump:

# file core

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

Re: Memory fault

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 03:57:03 GMT

Hi Tom,
Thanks for your reply.

The entry for ia in the /etc/passwd is given below:
ia:iBXxJU9Vw3T8w:103:20:,,,:/users/ia:/usr/bin/ksh

It is using ksh and it doesn't start any new program.

Re: Memory fault

Michael Tully — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 04:34:23 GMT

See if there is anything unusual in the users environment. If there is not, move his home directory elsewhere and re-create the user account fully. It could be corrupted.

Re: Memory fault

Stephanie Nicholls — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 05:46:50 GMT

You may have a corrupt ~ia/.sh_history file for the user 'ia'

Try vi'ing the file and if you get incomplete last line you have a corruption. Remove the .sh_history file and it should fix the problem.

HTH

Steph