[Sunhelp] Decypering panic messages

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:37:50PM -0400, Dale Ghent wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:
> | Would y'all say this is bad CPU, bad RAM, or both?
> | # grep panic messages
> | May 15 18:30:23 oradev1 unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=0x30023e80: CPU0 Multiple
> | Privileged UE Error: AFSR 0x00000001 80300000 AFAR 0x00000000 81007050
> | SIMM U0901 U0902 U0903 U0904 
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> What kind of box is this? It's calling out a whole bank of slots.
> I ran into this same problem last week on a e4500. It turned out that the
> Kingston RAM installed on all but one of the CPU boards was
> defective. Replaced it with Sun barcode RAM and things were great. I was
> able to reliably reproduce the panic running the VTS kmem test.
> If you have a mix of manufacturers for your DIMMS then try making
> everything from the same maker, or better yet, try all Sun.
> /dale

This was all 501-1316 Sun-barcoded RAM (Samsung).

I ran SunVTS for over an hour with no problem.  Maybe it was caused by
SunSpots. 8-)

Bill

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