[29349] in Hotline Meeting
Re: SPARC 5 down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
Thu Aug 3 08:30:49 1995
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 95 08:30:15 EDT
To: A N Sreeram <sreeram@MIT.EDU>
From: burke@MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
OOPS, I missed the athena stuff, too fast a reader I guess?
Send mail to hotline@mit.edu, or call 3-1410. I will get this message to
them, also>
>Hello Mr. Burke,
> We have a Sun Sparc 5 as a private athena workstation with the
>host name "real-uma". The machine just `died' while one of the users was using
>it this afternoon. The monitor is blank now with the following message on the
>screen,
>"Can't open input device.
>Keyboard not present. Using tty for input and output."
>
>I did check the cables, they are all connected tight. Please advise us as to
>what steps need to be taken further to bring the machine back on line. Your
>prompt response would be most appreciated. (It also didn't allow me to reboot
>the system.) You can either respond by replying to this e-mail or calling
>any of
>the tel.#s listed below.
>
>Thanks very much.
>
>Regards,
> Sreeram.
>
>Off. 13-4005, x3-0391 (w/ answering machine), lab. 13-4024, x8-6159.
>
>P.S. This is what happens when I `ping' to the machine:
>
>athena% /usr/sbin/ping real-uma
>no answer from real-uma
>athena%
