'AWK' command error - TOSTRING Function

David Griffiths — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:23:13 GMT

Hello All,

We had an MC/ServiceGuard package fail-over yesterday afternoon, and the error message within the package log started with:

AWK: Internal software error in the TOSTRING function on PATH.

The source line is 1

Initialisation Error.

This error seems to have caused an MC/ServiceGuard monitor script to return a zero value on checking for available paths to SAN (EMC) disk, thus causing a fail-over.

Its a strange one, and I still need to check if the AWK binary core-dumped, which I can pass on to HP Support.

Any ideas?

Andrew Austin.

Re: 'AWK' command error - TOSTRING Function

Steve Steel — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:02:09 GMT

Hi

make sure you have the latest awk patch since this could be a memory leak

example patch
Patch Name: PHCO_29952

Patch Description: s700_800 11.11 awk(1) patch

Creation Date: 04/12/06

Steve Steel

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