AdvaCommand for UNIX versions 1.7 and 1.8 - Restart after 248 days

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A description of this resolution:

A text editor will start.
Example how a start-up log may look:
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Starting OS: 15 Jun 2001 Fri 08:45 Function Restart
Starting OS: 14 Jan 2002 Mon 14:22 Station Restart

The last line in the log will show when the Advant Station was restarted last time.
Compare that with the actual time and calculate how long the Advant Station has been up and running since last restart.

3. Exit the text editor (choose Close in the File menu).

Reporting the problem to an ABB Support Center
We have not been able to force an Advant Station to restart by this 248 days reason.
We are interested to get all information we can from customers who have had this restart. What we need is a core dump from a such a restart to analyse.

Please follow the instructions below to search for core dumps before you contact an ABB Support Center.

Start a terminal window (press System Config - Station... - Terminal Window).
A terminal window will start.
To search for core dumps execute the following commands in a Terminal Window:
$ su
Password: vm-guld (if you haven’t changed the root password)
# find / -name core -exec ll {} \;
Core files are now listed with time stamps as they appear on the file system. If any core file have a time stamp close to when the station restarted itself you should check which process that created the core file, by executing the following command:
# file
The output from the file command looks like this:
core file from '' - received
When you have the above information contact Support Center for further instructions.
We also like to inspect the /products/log/dcSystem.log.old file (if it's active) after the station has restarted itself. If you suspect your system to suffer from the 248 days problem, make a copy of the dcSystem.log.old file to a safe place as soon as you have discovered the problem (or else it will be overwritten at the next restart). The log file may contain traces of events that lead to the restart.

To make a backup of the dcSystem.log.old file, execute this command:
$ cp /products/log/dcSystem.log.old /products/log/dcSystem.log.backup

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