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In article <1992Aug10.142728.4397@mic.ucla.edu>, shinn@agsm.ucla.edu (Shinn-Tzong Wu) writes:
> Hi, we just encounteded one of our worst nightmare, the VAXStation 3100
> (running VMS 5.3) died probably because it ran out of disk space for  
> the AUDIT process.  Since the AUDIT process tried to write into the
> full disk in the process of rebooting, there seemed to be no way that we
> can bring the system up.  We tried to boot it from a stand alone tape but
> it won't access to any of the disks.  Can anyone suggest any help?  Thanks...
> 
> Shinn
> shinn@shin.sscnet.ucla.edu

Try a conversational boot and set STARTUP_P1 to "MIN" (a Minimum boot).
I believe that the audit server doesn't start on minimum systems.

An alternative is to do a conversational boot and SET/STARTUP OPA0: (?syntax)
and this will bring the system up with OPA0 as the startup file. You can then
recover some space on the system disk. Then halt the machine and reboot it.

You don't need to reset the /STARTUP setting, but you will need to reset the
STARTUP_P1 setting before rebooting. And don't forget the write current!

Once you have fixed it up, I beleive there is a way of setting up the audit
server so that the machine simply suspends anything which is waiting on the
audit server. You can then log in and cleanup the system disk and then do
a SET AUDIT/SERVER=RESUME and everything will carry on as if nothing had
happened.

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