Mystery Abend
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Oct 2002
Q.
I have an IBM 5600 server with a gigabyte of memory running NetWare 5.2 Support Pack 3. Once or twice a week the server abends. The abend log does not seem to show anything other than an abend in SERVER.NLM. I thought that the problem might be related to high usage, but the server crashed on the weekend with almost no users on the server.
I have stripped everything off the server, including a replica that sat on it, but to no avail. I get a menu that allows me to write a core dump or simply continue. If I continue the server works fine for another few days with an abend number next to the server name prompt. There does not seem to be any pattern to this mystery abend. Any ideas would be appreciated
Alcuin the Abender
A.
Dear Abender: Unless you have applied the myriad of updates that came out after Support Pack 3, your best bet at this point is to go to Support Pack 4 and see if that helps. Also, make sure you have a FILES=40 statement in your server's CONFIG.SYS file in order for Support Pack 4 to function properly.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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