Hello,

> > I was unpleasantly surprised yesterday and today when my VAX had crashed
> > three times. It always happens when i'm compiling something (this
> > "something" being fvwm in my case, but IIRC it crashed once during
> > kernel compile too).
> >
>         Do you get any panic messages when it crashes? Do you have DDB
>         compiled into the kernel?

As i said earlier - since serial console attached to it was unavaliable
i used telnet sessions to log on. There was no mention of kernel panic
in telnet window but tehn again i'm not sure if they'd pop up there at
all. 

I'm trying out John Klos's suggestion now (it will take some time to get
kernel compiled).

For what it's worth: after one crash this morning (that finally made me
post to the mailing list) i restarted the box, opened 1 session via
virtual terminal and one via serial console; fvwm compiled without any
problems and there were no further crashes. I have this ugly feeling
that had i opened one more virtual terminal i'd get it to hang again ...
but i just wasn't in the mood for restart :) It's like Murphy is
involved - when i use serial console it works allright just to tease me;
when i use 2 virtual terminals it crashes. Now i'll leave it chum on
modified kernel, it will take a while but i'll let you know if it
crashes again (and again i'm away from serial console).

BTW: with all the gimmicks VAXen have DEC engineers couldn't leave one
HALT level for automatic reboot ? It boots of DKA0 after powerup but
there is no way to have it boot after kernel crash, is it ?

Blaz Antonic