Re: Server ABEND

[Brent Wolfe]

In addition to Andrew's most excellent advice (much needed in this case),
did someone recently change the password for whatever account BE is using? I
ask because of the "validate_user" tags in the walk.

"JeffreyESmith" <Jeffre...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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>
> Good morning, we have a HP DL380G4 running NW 6.5 SP5 (I know it's old)
> that's been running fine for over 4 years. Late last night it started
> abending repeatedly. It'll stay up for an hour or two then re-boot. I
> wasn't able to get an abend log until this morning (there just wasn't
> one generated). I already checked the disk hardware (they're fine) and
> power. I am now thinking it's memory or CPU. But I am attaching the one
> and only abend log I was able to get. It was generated when I tried to
> start the Backup Exec NLMs. This server has user files, a GW mailbox and
> not much else.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |Filename: ABEND.LOG |
> |Download: http://forums.novell.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3981 |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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[Rudolf Thilo]

Hi.

>Finally at the suggestion from our consultant, we
>re-applied SP5 and the post-SP5 server.exe patch (the only SPs on this
>box).

Why do you want to stay at SP5? That means you don't take advantage of all bugfixes
within the last 4(!) years...

Regards, Rudi.

[David Gersic]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:06:02 +0000, JeffreyESmith wrote:

> - to no avail. Finally at the suggestion from our consultant, we

> re-applied SP5 and the post-SP5 server.exe patch (the only SPs on this

> box). Re-booted and everything is fine once again.

You need a new consultant. Anybody recommending SP5 at this point is
either crazy or clueless. In neither case should they have anything to do
with a production server.

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