Subject: Re: Nasty user trap problem on Alpha...
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/03/1997 10:53:56
> are you wondering about the trap itself, or the spew?
The trap itself.
> Unfortunately, the information present is just about useless for
> debugging the trap, except that it looks like it's dereferenceing
> NULL, perhaps by jumping to zero. I suggest you rlogin to the machine
> and attach to the process with gdb. (it won't dump core since it's
> setuid.)
It looks like something really bad happened to the Alpha last night -
I can't talk to the SCSI drive from the boot PROM anymore. So maybe
this isn't a software problem anyway.
_MelloN_