Ultra5 Sunvts gives disturbing error without apparent problems

From: Fergus Wilde (fwilde@chethams.org.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 09:15:54 EST


In the spirit of hope triumphing over experience, I just wanted to ask if
anyone can see a reason not to call the Sun Doctor (the machine is on Silver
Service) after a stop a few seconds into a run of SunVtS with this error:

04/03/03 15:36:05 server SunVTS4.5: VTSID 8004 pmemtest.
  FATAL mem: "Unable to read pointer to memlist structure."

uname -a# SunOS server 5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
SunVTS version 4.5.

Sun's own docs do seem to tell you to call them out, but I was just hoping
someone knows a reason why the error might be in ... er ... error.

Machine has up-to-date OBP, and is giving no signs of trouble, logs are void
of doom-laden messages. However, since it's done very little work recently
except fit its own recommended patch set, am I inviting trouble by doing
nothing if I should need it soon?

Will summarise, thanks
Fergus

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Fergus Wilde
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