[Info-vax] Not getting a dump file when VMS crashes

[David Froble]

Ok, I should know more than I am remembering.  Take pity on a senile old man, if you know 
the answer(s).  Don't bother looking it up if you don't, I can still read.  Just hoping 
for a simple answer.

Got a VAXstation 4000 model 90A running VMS V7.2.  Recently it has been crashing.  I had 
been thinking it might be power related, there were some incidents where other stuff also 
went down, but now it's happening maybe once or twice a week to only the VAXstation.

So Ok, I'll look at the crash dump, right?  Unfortunately, what I'm getting is:

$ ana/crash
_Dump File: sys$system:sysdump.dmp

OpenVMS (TM) VAX System dump analyzer

%SDA-W-VAXDUMP, dump file FLAGS2 DMP$V_VAXDUMP should be set
%SDA-E-DUMPEMPTY, dump file contains no valid dump

Perhaps someone who knows what the above means can save me some eye strain?

I have DUMPSTYLE set to 2