[31928] in Hotline Meeting
station down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey R Gustafson)
Mon Feb 5 16:25:15 1996
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: pepsi@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 16:25:08 EST
From: Geoffrey R Gustafson <pepsi@MIT.EDU>
Hi. Station m37-332-4 is locked up. It's a Sparc-5.
I logged in and was working on my thesis project, specifically my first code
using sockets. Something I did was wrong, and the port I was using was still
taken after my program exited. So I eventually rebooted. It did a normal
reboot but also did a lengthy software update. When I came back in, all I did
was set up a background image, go su to kill vold, which always screws up
workman (unless that's part of the software update) and ran workman.
Workman did what it often does when vold is still running, namely locked up
the machine. But this time, I couldn't even stop-a to reboot.
Geoff
