bad dumpfile

[Antoniov.]

Willem,
thank you for information.
Will be useful next time.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Jan van den Ende]

Anyway, so far so good. Now wait for the next (real) crash...
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wishing you (and expecting) a looooooooooooong wait!

jpe

[Helmut Ammer]

Willem,

now there are more questions than answers.
DUMPSTYLE is set to 9 which means selective and compressed dump (bit 0 and 3). See
HELP SYS_PARA DUMPSTYLE in SYSGEN.
But SDA in your log says "...analyzing an Alpha full memory dump in override mode...". Also you get the message %SDA-W-INCDUMPFORM.
But in CLUE logfile you can see "...analyzing an Alpha compressed selective memory dump...".
This looks like your ANA/CRASH is using a different file as CLUE?!?
Please can you provide the console log of a crash and the line with the dumpfile from SHOW DEVICE/SYS SYS$SYSDEVICE:!

Helmut

[Willem Grooters]

Helmuth,
the CLUE logging is created during startup - and SDA was started using SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP. So I am puzzled as well now.

[Willem Grooters]

Not exactly, but I think I found the solution in the fact that there is now an idea what happened: Something went wrong during writing the dumpfile (see thread on memory problems).
Helmuth's suggestion is woirthwhile but first I need to find some machine where I can actually DUMP the screen....