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Re: 'AWK' command error - TOSTRING Function

 
David Griffiths
Occasional Advisor

‎08-02-2005 09:23 AM

‎08-02-2005 09:23 AM

'AWK' command error - TOSTRING Function

Hello All,

We had an MC/ServiceGuard package fail-over yesterday afternoon, and the error message within the package log started with:

AWK: Internal software error in the TOSTRING function on PATH.

The source line is 1

Initialisation Error.

This error seems to have caused an MC/ServiceGuard monitor script to return a zero value on checking for available paths to SAN (EMC) disk, thus causing a fail-over.

Its a strange one, and I still need to check if the AWK binary core-dumped, which I can pass on to HP Support.

Any ideas?

Andrew Austin.
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Steve Steel
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‎08-02-2005 08:02 PM

‎08-02-2005 08:02 PM

Re: 'AWK' command error - TOSTRING Function

Hi

make sure you have the latest awk patch since this could be a memory leak


example patch
Patch Name: PHCO_29952

Patch Description: s700_800 11.11 awk(1) patch

Creation Date: 04/12/06



Steve Steel
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