Help! BSOD in Unix

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, May 14, 2008, Barry Wiseman wrote:
>Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:35:50PM -0400, Barry Wiseman wrote:
>>> SunOS
>>> filepro 5.0.14
>>>
>>> These people win the cake for most weird problems I'm seeing for the 
>>> first time in 30 years of filepro.
>>>
>>> Today, they suddenly stopped being able to load *clerk or *report.  I 
>>> launch the program from the shell, no arguments, it never gets to Enter 
>>> Filename.  Redraws the screen blank in filepro's background color, and 
>>> hangs with the cursor at 0,0.  Does not respond to BREAK or Ctrl-\. 
>>> Only a "kill -9" from another terminal will recover the session.
>> 
>> SunOS has strace, doesn't it?
>> 
>
>#strace rclerk
>ERROR: unable to open /dev/log
>#
>
>They don't give me root.  :-(

That makes it kinda hard to deal with some things.

Is this Solaris?  If so, you might want to look at dtrace.  You
might also try ``ldd'' on the executable to see if it shows any
problems with shared libraries.

Bill
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