[33091] in Hotline Meeting
w20-575-{12,13}: weird problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Apr 20 17:38:42 1996
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:38:39 -0400
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
A user came in an reported that w20-575-12 had hung on him (it's a
SPARC classic). I went in and took a look, and it was stuck with the
window manager waiting for the user to click and place a window,
neither the mouse or the keyboard responded.
Pressing STOP-A yielded no results, nor did unplugging the keyboard
and plugging it back in all (all connections). The neighboring
workstation (see below) appeared idle, so I borrowed it's keyboard
(and cables & mouse), and had the same results. I power cycled it, and
it rebooted just fine. No idea what caused this -- flaky hardware?
The neighboring workstation, w20-575-13, also a SPARC classic, had a
different problem. It's screen was all black, but both the workstation
and the monitor displayed green LEDs, so were clearly on. Like it's
neighbor, STOP-A had no effect. I double-checked the monitor cable,
and it was soundly seated. I power cycled it, and it came back up and
started the normal boot sequence (I didn't wait for it to finish, but
it fingers now so I suspect it's fine. Again, possibly flaky hardware?
I don't know.
--jhawk
