[HECnet] time-critical, need RSX sysgen help

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-12 03:32, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 04/11/2015 09:29 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>     It is stopping at seemingly random points, the most recent being
>>> during RSXASM.  At least I'm pretty sure it had stopped at different
>>> points the first two times I did it.
>>>
>>>     I get 'Task "...MAC" terminated, T-bit trap or BPT execution' and a
>>> register dump.
>>>
>>>     This is going to tank a big part of my exhibit.  Can anyone help me
>>> get past this?  I last did an RSX11M sysgen probably 25 years ago; I
>>> don't consider myself to be well-versed in this anymore.
>>
>> That is not an obvious problem. I wonder if you have hardware problems?
>
>    Hm.  It's possible.  It runs for a good long while, and it runs RT11
> stably.
>
>> The only other "obvious" thing would be memory. How much memory do you
>> have in the system, and is something more running at the same time?
>
>    I have 124KW.  Nothing else is running; I've just booted a clean set
> of packs and started a sysgen.
>
>    Do you really suspect hardware?  I have an XXDP pack that I can boot
> up, but I am so short of time...even slogging through the XXDP
> documentation will take half the night.

It's just that T-bit trap or BPT is not something you'd normally get here.

Are you running the baseline system, or have you done some previous 
SYSGEN? If you run RMD, what can you see sitting in memory?

	Johnny

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