taking time on booting HP-UX server

[sreerag]

Hi,

We have one server ia64 hp server rx5670 running 11.23 OS. On restarting the server it is showing error like show below.

HP-UX startup in progress
----------------------------
configure system crash dump ................................................

[prasadb]

OK,
is it stuck there ?
explain in detail, whats the problem ?

[sreerag]

Thanks for quick response.

Its going with .....................( dots)

and after sometime (arnd 1 hr) it starts some service and agian going on dots.
Quick response is appreciated.

Thanks
Sreerag

[Viney Kumar]

HI

what is firmware version......... of server and
have try to configure crash.

[sreerag]

Thanks for reply

Firmware version is 3.08

Could you please tell how to configure crash dump in single user mode.

Thanks
Sreerag

[sujit kumar singh]

hi


ya u can config the system crash dumps using the crashconf command to add/delete new dump device or can also edit the file /sbin/init.d/crashconf so as to configure teh crash at system boot

CRASHCONF=1
CRASHCONF=0

1 to configure the crash at the system boot
0 not to configure the crash at the system boot. Also u can tell which Crash pages and Crash devices to include here in thsi file.


u can also edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/savecrash

to define whether u want to save the crash or not , to which directory (/var/adm/crash) is the default
SAVECRASH=1 --- if u want to save the crash
SAVECRASH=0 if u do not want ot save the crash


compress the crash or to tell some other location to keep the crash file etc.



yes this is possiblr to do that in Single user mode.


Regards
Sujit

[Viney Kumar]

just check it out in your server there any savecore file in /etc/rc.config.d/ ??
or not

and also conform from there in savecore script in /sbin/init.d or not ??

[Viney Kumar]

Hi sujit


also tell, also to configure it as background job. I think then system wil take less time to boot


viney

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Looks like the dump disk is dead or offline.

Any system like this should be able to get past this step in seconds.

You have a bad disk, look at the system for warning lights. Call hardware service if you have that contracted.

SEP

[sujit kumar singh]

hi vinay ,


u only can shed somelight on how to configure the crash in the background. Shall be thankful as i have never done that before.


Regards
Sujit