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PANIC! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Handbook (Bk/CD-ROM), 1/e

Chris Drake, Sun Microsystems Press
Kimberley A.D. Brown

Published May, 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1995, 496 pp.
Paper Bound with Disk
ISBN 0-13-149386-8

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Summary

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.

Features


provides "tricks of the trade" that can help locate the source of UNIX system troubles and get the system back on-line and into working condition.
explores some of the / usr /include files, offering greater insights into UNIX and the source tree.
shows how to collect the most useful information available after a system crash that can help a vendor find a resolution.
Part One covers theory and tools.
Part Two looks inside UNIX, from the header files to hardware tape drives.
Part Three provides actual case studies of software, hardware, data, and system fault problems.


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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