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w20-575-80 does nothing but panic.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sun Oct 12 23:46:25 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:46:21 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Machine w20-575-80 panics every time it attempts to boot.
I've tried to type in some of the boot-time error messages.
I also turned it off, and put a sign on the keyboard asking people
not to turn it back on.
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
[The messages follow. My comments are inside square brackets.]
[..Blah blah, and then:..]
Can't properly parse host line "net.mit.edu" in configuration file /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB
afsd: some file missing or bar in /usr/vice/etc
[..Omission..]
syslog service starting.
! No such user as root - cron entries not created Sun Oct 12 23:30:20 1997
! No such user as adm - cron entries not created Sun Oct 12 23:30:20 1997
! No such user as sys - cron entries not created Sun Oct 12 23:30:20 1997
MIT configuration...
Cleaning up passwd file: recovered from passwd.local...
[..Omission..]
cp: cannot access /afs/athena/service/CellServDB
[..Many more messages of the "cannot access xxx" type..]
[..And then, the real kicker. The machine panics. Lots of junk
gets written to the screen. It seems to start with:]
only allowing setuid information from the following cells.
BAD TRAP: type=9 rp=[..Mumble..] addr=0 mmu_fst=326 rw=1
BAD TRAP occurred in module "afs" due to an illegal access to a user address.
listsuidcells: [..Rats. It scrolled off the screen just as I was
about to type this part..]
[..After watching this four times in a row, I turned the machine off..]
