[HPADM] RE: [HPADMIN] [SUMMARY] last fails with coredump

From: Julius Szelagiewicz (julius_at_turtle.com)
Date: 06/06/03

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    Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:22:12 -0400 (EDT)
To: hpux admin <hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl>

    Dear Admins,
            again, Bill Hassell's answer as the perfect summary. Kevin
    Davisson's suggestion boiled down to the same. Thank you, julius

    Original message:
    I have a surprizing problem that manifested itself right after the
    reboot: "last" command fails with "memory fault(coredump)" message. What
    could be the problem, how to fix it? "who" works just fine. L2000 HP-UX
    11.0.

    On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Bill Hassell wrote:
    > Sounds like corruption of the wtmp file. Make a copy of /var/adm/wtmp
    > then zero the wtmp file and reboot. It may be a patch issue but I did
    > not see anything in the patch database. 

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