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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2279.0. "OA$MAIN.DMP?" by KERNEL::SMITHERSJ (Living on the culinary edge....) Wed Feb 17 1993 14:27

    Got a bit of a spooky problem here. 
    
    A customer found that lots of users were running out of disk space.  
    On further investigation, these users all had OA$MAIN.DMP files in their
    top level directories each 17,000 blocks.
    
    I suggested to the customer that the user probably accvio'ed out of 
    ALL-IN-1 at some point causing a dump file to be produced.  This could 
    happen if they relinked ALL-IN-1 with DEBUGGER and had slipped 
    $SET PROC/DUMP into SYLOGIN.COM (as you do!).
    
    He checked and he hadn't done this.  The user's also hadn't accvio'ed
    out of ALL-IN-1.  It appears to happen if they send a print job to a 
    printer queue that has the plug pulled out ?!  I can't reproduce this.
    Also this seems to only happen at certain times, ie the users who see
    the problem all get the .DMP files at around the same time.
    
    I've anal/image OA$MAIN which didn't uncover anything.  What else can
    I check and why might these files be produced?   He tried anal/crash
    but that didn't uncover anything?  The only time I have read about 
    dump files being produced is with OA$FORMATTER.  Help!
    
    
    Thanks
    julia 
      
    
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2279.1WordPerfect ?AIMTEC::VOLLER_IGordon (T) Gopher for PresidentWed Feb 17 1993 18:0824
    Julia,
    
    	Only ways (that I am aware of) that ALL-IN-1 will produce an
    	OA$MAIN.DMP are :-
    
    	o	Customer has installed the ALL-IN-1 Process Dump Catcher
    		tool - from the ALL-IN-1 Tools Project.
    
    		This would cause a process dump to be taken following
    		an unhandled error (ACCVIO) within ALL-IN-1.
    
    		This doesn't appear to be what you are seeing.
    
    	o	I have seen OA$MAIN.DMP files created on systems
    		with WordPerfect integrated. This implies that WordPerfect
    		have implemented $IMGDMP routines within their code.
    
    		If this is indeed on a WordPerfect system then you may
    		wish to contact them for more information.
    
    	Hope this helps ...
    
    Cheers,
    Iain.