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Strange problem with m56-129-10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher C Mihelich)
Mon Jul 8 17:43:50 2002
Message-Id: <200207082143.RAA18585@m56-129-13.mit.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:43:48 -0400
From: Christopher C Mihelich <cmihelic@MIT.EDU>
A few minutes ago I was logged in on m56-129-10 and noticed that every
program I ran took an extra half minute (at least that's what it felt
like) to start up, and there was a continual whirring sound seeming to
come from the CD drive. The open/close button on the CD drive wasn't
working, so I paperclipped the drive open and discovered someone's
abandoned CD-R inside. I removed the disc and pushed the drive shut
(the open/close button still didn't work). That stopped the whirring,
but everything was still as slow as before, even though ps -lfe showed
nothing using more than 1% of the processor. I finally rebooted the
machine when my logout command stalled for a long time. Please have a
look at m56-129-10 when you can.
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Chris Mihelich The time is gone; the song is over;
cmihelic@mit.edu thought I'd something more to say.
July 08, 2002 17:43 EDT -- Pink Floyd, "Time"
