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

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In article <BZ966jZ1LPkz at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <jlf6cm$402$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> 
>> 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 ....
>
>   In which case VMS didn't ever get the chance to do an OS crash and
>   memory dump.  There just might have been something in the error log
>   if it was not a power issue, but generally you'll get at least a
>   breif console message if it was not a power issue but something else
>   that couldn't let the OS do a crash.

Why not prove that the dump file is getting a dump?

With the system running, $ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:OPCCRASH.EXE

When the system comes back up, there should be a valid dump.

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