HP3000 Series A400/100/110 Version C.70.01

Our 3000 has been running fine for many years. Last night, there were fireworks of the wrong kind.

I was simply putting a tape on for the nightly backup. I noted that the load message never came up.
I then discovered that the console was frozen and unresponsive.

It has been a long time since the last reboot...since the last power outage. So I did a Ctrl-B and a reset.

It got up to the date and a little past and seemed frozen. I pulled the plug and restarted again. It took
2-3 times as long as normal and at first, the red fault light was on (never saw that on before). After
It got a bit into the restart, the fault light turned off by itself. The only attention message I got about
the whole thing was a message with everything unknown on it.

When the computer came all the way up, it still seemed very sluggish. I scheduled the nightly update
and backup and went home to look at it more in the morning. Logged on from home and the backup
seemed to be running OK.

This morning I tried resetting the GSP and checked the connections to the console terminal. I also found
out that someone else had a hard time getting on the 3000 towards the end of the day. Very sluggish.

This morning, everything seems back to normal. But I am concerned, since I don't know what the
problem was. It almost reminded me of something I used to call the Creeping Crud, where people
started freezing up all over the place, while some people were still able to work. The only thing was
a reboot. But in this case, it seemed worse. Only a few people on our 3000 now, but we still depend
on it for a high profile application.

Any suggestions on things I could check? Thanks!

Tom Hula
Victor S. Barnes Company

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