topic Memory Fault Error Message in Operating System - HP-UX

Memory Fault Error Message

Angela L. Shepherd — Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:16:51 GMT

I have a HP L Class 2000 machine running HP-UX 11.0. Whenever I issue the last | more command, I receive the following error message:

/sbin/sh: 16193 Memory fault(coredump)

I copied another last binary from a different machine but I still receive this error message.

Any suggestions?

Re: Memory Fault Error Message

John Poff — Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:23:11 GMT

Hello,

Here is a recent thread that discusses the problem. One person suggests copying the 'more' binary from a 10.20 box if you can.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x73771012aa92d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

JP

Re: Memory Fault Error Message

Santosh Nair_1 — Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:24:52 GMT

Looks like the wtmp file is corrupt...just move it out of the way and touch wtmp. wtmp usually lives in /var/adm/wtmp. Keep in mind that you will lose information on who logged in and when if you do this.

Alternatively you could try to fix the wtmp file using fwtmp and/or wtmpfix.

-Santosh

Re: Memory Fault Error Message

linuxfan — Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:34:43 GMT

Hi Angela,

Looks like your wtmp is corrupt, move or delete the wtmp file and recreate (touch)the /var/adm/tmp file.

Change the ownership to adm:adm and the permissions to 664

-Regards
Ramesh

Re: Memory Fault Error Message

Angela L. Shepherd — Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:08:12 GMT

Thank you. Please close this issue.