Memory Fault Error Message

[Angela L. Shepherd]

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?

[John Poff]

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

[Santosh Nair_1 · Accepted solution]

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

[linuxfan]

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

[Angela L. Shepherd]

Thank you. Please close this issue.