13-Nov-2002

Bugcheck traced

Recently, we have been struggling with a little problem that has crashed one of our development GS140s a number of times under OpenVMS 7.3. Engineering supplied us with a debug version of SYS$VM.EXE.

Today, it spat out a bunch of info.

The crash occurs because somehow the PTE that points at the last page in a process's working set is getting corrupted. When the page pointed to by the corrupt PTE is selected for replacement during heavy paging activity, down goes the system.

The debug execlet that Engineering supplied did its job and firstly noticed the corrupted PTE, secondly reported it (and all the debugging info), and lastly prevented the machine from crashing.

More as it comes to hand...

Posted at November 13, 2002 7:14 PM
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this is what i find in the event viewer after reboot.

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000050 (0xe8e27508, 0x00000000, 0x80434b39, 0x00000002). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini080903-01.dmp.

Posted by: tonu at August 8, 2003 10:17 PM

You may be interested to see what an OpenVMS dump analysis looks like. I have just posted the footprint for this dump in an entry, Pesky bugcheck solved.

This output is of course only the tip of the iceburg. OpenVMS has comprehensive dump analysis tools. You can find further information in the online manual OpenVMS Alpha System Analysis Tools Manual.

Posted by: Jim Duff at August 9, 2003 8:38 AM

My computer rebooted from a bugcheck too and it said:The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000007f (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011004-01.dmp.

Posted by: Vladimir at January 11, 2004 1:43 PM

any idia what bugcheck is

Posted by: Vladimir at January 11, 2004 1:45 PM

I have 1 GB DDR Ram and 80 GB 7200 RPM and i have more than 10 GB Free on the Primary partition. The operating systems is WIN XP Prof with SP 1

The error
"The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000000a (0x0000002d, 0x000000ff, 0x00000001, 0x80530f17). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini030104-01.dmp."

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp

Posted by: Ravindra Mayya at March 1, 2004 8:33 AM

I'm closing the comments on this thread, as I'm certainly not in the habit of debugging Windows problems.

Posted by: Jim Duff at March 1, 2004 5:49 PM

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