[HPADM] RE: [HPADMIN] [SUMMARY] last fails with coredump

From: Julius Szelagiewicz (julius@turtle.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 22:22:12 EDT


Dear Admins,
        again, Bill Hassell's answer as the perfect summary. Kevin
Davisson's suggestion boiled down to the same. Thank you, julius

Original message:
I have a surprizing problem that manifested itself right after the
reboot: "last" command fails with "memory fault(coredump)" message. What
could be the problem, how to fix it? "who" works just fine. L2000 HP-UX
11.0.

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Bill Hassell wrote:
> Sounds like corruption of the wtmp file. Make a copy of /var/adm/wtmp
> then zero the wtmp file and reboot. It may be a patch issue but I did
> not see anything in the patch database.

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