OpenVMS halt code = 5

[Volker Halle]

If this DEC 3000 system has a floppy, you could store the output file on that floppy. But you need an OpenVMS system to read that floppy afterwards !

Let's start with some basic analysis. You have to write down and provide the output exaclty as it occurs on the screen. Or you can take a picture of the screen output and post the .JPG

SDA> CLUE CRASH
Provide the data for the first few lines (from Bugcheck Type until offset)

SDA> EXA/INS 8004bf84

Volker.

[RBrown_1]

Don't forget that you can

SDA> SET OUTPUT filespec
SDA> CLUE CRASH
SDA> CLUE CONFIG

to put the CLUE output into the specified file. You can then transfer this text file to someplace from where you can post to here.

[Bob Blunt]

The capture solution doesn't *need* to be a laptop. Any PC with a spare COM port and terminal emulator, another VMS server with a spare MMJ or RS-232 (DB25), probably even a Unix/Linux system could be setup to capture the console output. Some of the more intelligent dumb terminals (VT4xx, VT5xx) can save some data but pasting it back out can be difficult. Or, if all else fails, a hardcopy terminal or old school dot matrix printer can at least save the console data so you don't have to sit there waiting for it to fail. Or you could connect the console port to a terminal server... There are ways. Not all are simple, but there are ways.

I can't remember if you gave a clear description of when this problem happens? At power-up? During boot? Does the system still boot at all? What OpenVMS version? Patches? The usual suspects...

bob

[Latif2002]

Bob,

It booting until
⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦..
Completed

And I have OpenVMS version 6.2

Thx.

[Volker Halle]

It booting until
⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦⠦..
Completed


These are not OpenVMS native messages, are they ? In the initial problem description, you correctly typed a CPU halt message. Does this problem still exist and show up in the same way ? Or do you now have a different problem ?

If you want us to help you, you need to provide the data from the crash (CLUE CRASH output any maybe more).

Volker.