[35538] in Hotline Meeting
m4-035-6 panicked on me; m4-035-7 totally screwed up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc D. Tanner)
Tue Oct 29 19:02:40 1996
From: "Marc D. Tanner" <mdtanner@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: mdtanner@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 19:02:28 EST
First:
I was using the SGI m4-035-6 when all of a sudden, my screen
disappeared and was replaced by a message "Cache parity error" or some
such thing. It proceeded to write its memory to disk and reboot.
It's back up now, but some poor unsuspecting soul might take issue
with this behavior.
Second:
The machine nextdoor, m4-035-7 (labeled m4-034-7) has a note on it
that says "Please do not disturb. Software is reloading. Wait for
login window. Athena Operations." It repeatedly boots, has a bunch
of errors, kernel panics, and writes its memory to disk and reboots.
I don't think, at this rate, that it'll ever load any software.
--Marc
