PANIC! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Handbook (Bk/CD-ROM)
Published on 8. June 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-13-149386-5 (ISBN)
Description
For systems and network administrators and technical support engineers responsible for maintaining UNIX computer systems and networks.
A first aid guide for UNIX system and network administrators, this book provides quick solutions to a variety of UNIX system problems. It discusses in detail UNIX system panics, crashes and hangs, their causes, what to do when they occur, how to collect information about them, how to analyze that information, and how to get the problem resolved.
A first aid guide for UNIX system and network administrators, this book provides quick solutions to a variety of UNIX system problems. It discusses in detail UNIX system panics, crashes and hangs, their causes, what to do when they occur, how to collect information about them, how to analyze that information, and how to get the problem resolved.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-149386-5 (9780131493865)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
I. THEORY AND TOOLS.
1. My System Has Crashed!
2. My System is Hung.
3. The Savecore Program.
4. Introduction to "adb."
5. "adb" Commands, Part One.
6. Hey! We've Got One!
7. Initial Crash Dump Information: without Using adb.
8. Initial Crash Dump Information: Using adb.
9. Simple Crash Analysis.
10. "adb" Commands, Part Two.
11. "adb" Macros.
12. SPARC Instructions as Seen Via "adb."
13. SPARC Architecture.
14. Advanced Skills - Performing Stack Trace Backs by Hand.
15. Advanced Skills - Memory Addresses.
16. Advanced Skills - Modifying Live Kernels.
17. Advanced Skills - Multiprocessor Kernels.
18. Traps.
19. Interrupts.
II. LOOKING INSIDE UNIX.
20. The Header Files.
21. Panic.
22. The "U" Area.
23. Kernel Tables.
24. the Virtual Memory System.
25. Process Schedulers.
26. Streams.
27. Sockets.
28. File Systems.
29. Message Queues, Semaphores, and Shared Memory.
30. Networking.
31. Device Drivers.
32. Hardware - CPU + Memory.
33. Hardware - Ethernet.
34. Hardware - Serial Ports.
35. Hardware Disk Drives.
36. Hardware - Tape Drives.
III. THREE ACTUAL CASE STUDIES.
37. Software Panic.
38. Panic: data fault.
39. Hung System.
40. Hardware Problem.
1. My System Has Crashed!
2. My System is Hung.
3. The Savecore Program.
4. Introduction to "adb."
5. "adb" Commands, Part One.
6. Hey! We've Got One!
7. Initial Crash Dump Information: without Using adb.
8. Initial Crash Dump Information: Using adb.
9. Simple Crash Analysis.
10. "adb" Commands, Part Two.
11. "adb" Macros.
12. SPARC Instructions as Seen Via "adb."
13. SPARC Architecture.
14. Advanced Skills - Performing Stack Trace Backs by Hand.
15. Advanced Skills - Memory Addresses.
16. Advanced Skills - Modifying Live Kernels.
17. Advanced Skills - Multiprocessor Kernels.
18. Traps.
19. Interrupts.
II. LOOKING INSIDE UNIX.
20. The Header Files.
21. Panic.
22. The "U" Area.
23. Kernel Tables.
24. the Virtual Memory System.
25. Process Schedulers.
26. Streams.
27. Sockets.
28. File Systems.
29. Message Queues, Semaphores, and Shared Memory.
30. Networking.
31. Device Drivers.
32. Hardware - CPU + Memory.
33. Hardware - Ethernet.
34. Hardware - Serial Ports.
35. Hardware Disk Drives.
36. Hardware - Tape Drives.
III. THREE ACTUAL CASE STUDIES.
37. Software Panic.
38. Panic: data fault.
39. Hung System.
40. Hardware Problem.