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тАО03-26-2008 01:04 AM
тАО03-26-2008 01:04 AM
ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
We have couple of COMPAQ ALPHAServer DS20E. One of these machines are taking hours to boot up after a normal shutdown. We normally don't shutdown the servers but some times need to restart due to different reasons.
Can u tell me if it is writing the log files some where for error diagnosis?? The messages file has information only after system bootup. We are using Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A.
Looking for help
Thanks
RMA
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тАО03-26-2008 03:58 AM
тАО03-26-2008 03:58 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
What is the last message do you see after the "long delay"?
Log files are in /var/adm/syslog.dated
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тАО03-26-2008 04:06 AM
тАО03-26-2008 04:06 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
you could observe the monitor during the server booting up especially when it starting the services. Is ntp is set or do you have nfs mounts?
let us know.
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тАО03-26-2008 09:46 AM
тАО03-26-2008 09:46 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
You can increase the internal buffering for messages (and binlog entries, if needed) by changing the /etc/sysconfigtab generic section. For example,
generic:
binlog-buffer-size = 128000
msgbuf_size = 512000
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тАО03-27-2008 03:10 AM
тАО03-27-2008 03:10 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
This displays more info from the boot process than the graphics console wich only starts after memory tests and "graphics init" on the OCP-display.
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тАО03-27-2008 06:00 AM
тАО03-27-2008 06:00 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
Slow boots are frequently caused by the server looking for something on the network that is no longer present... NFS mounts are a common culprit...
Cheers,
Rob
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тАО03-27-2008 07:49 AM
тАО03-27-2008 07:49 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
/var/adm/syslog.dated/
You can also try "sysman event_viewer"
wich combines, messages file, binary eventlog and evmlog's
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тАО03-28-2008 04:51 AM
тАО03-28-2008 04:51 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
Today noon I restarted the server to give the infroamtion that it shows to update this thread. I restarted the server at 1205hrs and now it is 1750hrs and the time to go home. Till this time, it hasn't started. Following is the information on the screen:
Testing the System.
Testing the Memory.
Testing the Disks.
Testing ei devices.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Loading vmunix...
Loading at xxxxxxxxxxx (Memory locations)
Sizes:
Text: 6891200
Data: 1304384
bss: 1786400
Starting at xxxxxxxx (Memory loacation)
Loading vmunix Symbol table [1706632]
The above is the last line that I am getting. There is a heavy hard disk activity going on but :-(
Please help.
RMA
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тАО03-28-2008 05:22 AM
тАО03-28-2008 05:22 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
Thanks
RMA
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тАО03-28-2008 05:35 AM
тАО03-28-2008 05:35 AM
Re: ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup
Try booting into single-user mode
boot -fl "s"
see if this boots in a reasonable time
next step do a
bcheckrc
to mount the base filesystems (/ /usr and /var as r/w)
check if you have enough free space on these filesystems.
mount -a
to mount all other filesystems named in fstab (ignore the messages about / /usr and /var)
init 2
to enable network support (from this host not to this host).
init 3
to boot to multi-user mode
or manually execute all scripts /sbin/rc
to record what takes so much time