[29357] in Hotline Meeting
System failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A N Sreeram)
Thu Aug 3 10:35:53 1995
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, sreeram@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 10:35:40 EDT
From: A N Sreeram <sreeram@MIT.EDU>
Hello,
We have a SunSparc 5 as a private athena workstation (Rm 13-4024) with the
host name "real-uma". The machine just `died' while one of the users was using
it last 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.
It also didn't allow me to reboot the system, using `stop a' keys. There is
no response to any keys. Your prompt response would be most appreciated.
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%
