When ASE is booted with traceflag 3607 on (using -T3607 as a parameter in the RUN_SERVER file), recovery is not run on any database including master.
This is useful in cases where recovery of master hits a fatal error, preventing any further recovery of the server. The traceflag allows access to the system tables, allowing the contents to be extracted for use in rebuilding the server.
When booted using this traceflag, the errorlog will contain something like this in place of the usual database by database recovery output:
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00:0006:00000:00000:2013/12/31 13:45:28.90 server Active traceflags: 3607
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:28.91 kernel libomni1 - Component Integration Services: using 'Sybase Client-Library/16.0/P/DRV.16.0.0.00/SPARC/Solaris 10 Native Threads/BUILD1600-000/64
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:28.92 server Size of the 2K memory pool for the cache (default data cache): 8192 Kb
Memory allocated for the default data cache cachelet 1: 8192 Kb
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:28.92 server Opening Master Database ...
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.28 server Loading ASE's default sort order and character set
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.56 kernel HADR previous mode before master recovery is : -1
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.56 server WARNING: ***************************
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.56 server Booting without recovery
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.56 server WARNING: ***************************
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.75 kernel The master key startup file is '/work/releases/rel16b/ASE-16_0/init/ase_encrcols_mk_REL16_bret_sun2.dat'.
00:0006:00000:00004:2013/12/31 13:45:29.75 kernel IP: interface on sockp 100027b3200 for bret-sun2 set to IPv4
00:0006:00000:00004:2013/12/31 13:45:29.75 kernel network name bret-sun2, interface IPv4, address xx.xx.xx.xx, type tcp, port 4160, filter NONE
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.76 server ASE's default unicode sort order is 'binary'.
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.76 server ASE's default sort order is:
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.76 server 'bin_iso_1' (ID = 50)
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.76 server on top of default character set:
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.76 server 'iso_1' (ID = 1).
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:29.76 server Master device size: 336 megabytes, or 172032 virtual pages. (A virtual page is 2048 bytes.)
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:30.09 kernel Setting console to nonblocking mode.
00:0006:00000:00001:2013/12/31 13:45:30.09 kernel Console logging is enabled. This is controlled via the 'enable console logging' configuration parameter.
00:0006:00000:00008:2013/12/31 13:45:30.09 kernel nconnect: connect, Connection refused