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

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <jldgn6$ala$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> Unless I've forgotten everything I've ever known (might not be much), the contents of 
>> memory are written by default to SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP.  I'm not trying to write the dump 
>> to the paging file, or DOSD (off system disk) or anything like that.  My SYSDUMP.DMP is 
>> the size of physical memory.
> 
>    Is sysdump.dmp contiguous, or at least CBT?
> 
>    When you say "crash", do you mean "FATAL BUGCHECK" on the console?
> 

No, what I'm getting is the system will all of a sudden begin the self test.  Nothing on 
the console to indicate that anything happened.

Stinks like a power problem to me ....