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

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In article <jldadr$7ig$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>Ok, I should know more than I am remembering.  Take pity on a senile old man, if you know 
>the answer(s).  Don't bother looking it up if you don't, I can still read.  Just hoping 
>for a simple answer.
>
>Got a VAXstation 4000 model 90A running VMS V7.2.  Recently it has been crashing.  I had 
>been thinking it might be power related, there were some incidents where other stuff also 
>went down, but now it's happening maybe once or twice a week to only the VAXstation.
>
>So Ok, I'll look at the crash dump, right?  Unfortunately, what I'm getting is:
>
>$ 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

What does SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP look like?  Is it sized appropriately?
Is it contiguous?  Movefile disabled?

$ DUMP/HEADER/BLOCK=COUNT=0 SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP


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