Panic! : UNIX system crash dump analysis

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Panic! : UNIX system crash dump analysis

Chris Drake [and] Kimberley Brown

SunSoft Press , Prentice-Hall, c1995

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Description

For systems and network administrators and technical support engineers responsible for maintaining UNIX computer systems and networks. A first aid guide for UNIX system and network administrators, this book provides quick solutions to a variety of UNIX system problems. It discusses in detail UNIX system panics, crashes and hangs, their causes, what to do when they occur, how to collect information about them, how to analyze that information, and how to get the problem resolved.

Table of Contents

I. THEORY AND TOOLS. 1. My System Has Crashed! 2. My System is Hung. 3. The Savecore Program. 4. Introduction to "adb." 5. "adb" Commands, Part One. 6. Hey! We've Got One! 7. Initial Crash Dump Information: without Using adb. 8. Initial Crash Dump Information: Using adb. 9. Simple Crash Analysis. 10. "adb" Commands, Part Two. 11. "adb" Macros. 12. SPARC Instructions as Seen Via "adb." 13. SPARC Architecture. 14. Advanced Skills - Performing Stack Trace Backs by Hand. 15. Advanced Skills - Memory Addresses. 16. Advanced Skills - Modifying Live Kernels. 17. Advanced Skills - Multiprocessor Kernels. 18. Traps. 19. Interrupts. II. LOOKING INSIDE UNIX. 20. The Header Files. 21. Panic. 22. The "U" Area. 23. Kernel Tables. 24. the Virtual Memory System. 25. Process Schedulers. 26. Streams. 27. Sockets. 28. File Systems. 29. Message Queues, Semaphores, and Shared Memory. 30. Networking. 31. Device Drivers. 32. Hardware - CPU + Memory. 33. Hardware - Ethernet. 34. Hardware - Serial Ports. 35. Hardware Disk Drives. 36. Hardware - Tape Drives. III. THREE ACTUAL CASE STUDIES. 37. Software Panic. 38. Panic: data fault. 39. Hung System. 40. Hardware Problem.

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  • NCID
    BA25158519
  • ISBN
    • 0131493868
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Mountain View, Calif.,Upper Saddle River, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 492 p.
  • Size
    24 cm.
  • Attached Material
    1 CD-ROM
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