[39688] in Hotline Meeting
M66-080-22 && M66-080-21
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Sun Sep 21 05:14:49 1997
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 05:14:46 EDT
Greetings. M66-080-22 is an extremely unhappy machine. It was displaying
a screen full of "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet" messages; I hit stop-A,
and got a "Boot load failed; Illegal Instruction" message; a subsequent "boot"
resulted in a reset, the start of a boot sequence, and the same sequence of
messages. This machine probably needs a re-install, and I wonder if perhaps
some hardware is bad?
M66-080-21's monitor is experiencing quite a bit of jitter, which wasn't fixed
by pressing the reset button; this appears in console mode as well (which is
where I'm drafting this, in fact). This might be a hardware fault, as I find
it unlikely that there are fluctuating electromagnetic fields of that intensity
here.
(You may notice that this message was sent from the root account on this
machine; I doctored the From line to reflect the actual sender. My home
directory couldn't be attached because of the daphne outage tonight, so...)
--
Kevin L. Mitchell
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