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Serious problem with Strayhorn.mit.edu

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary J. Ziegler)
Mon Apr 5 14:32:48 1999

Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 14:05:06 -0400
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: "Mary J. Ziegler" <maryz@MIT.EDU>
Cc: atic@MIT.EDU

Hi,

We have a Sparc5 in the ATIC lab (11-103, call before you come at 3-7808)
that 
is having serious problems (see below)  Can someone take a look at it?
Please call before you come, to make sure someone's here to let you in.

Machine name is strayhorn.mit.edu and IP address is 18.81.1.18.

Thanks,
Mary Ziegler

>To: atic@MIT.EDU
>Subject: strayhorn
>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:02:14 EDT
>From: "Sterling J. Crockett" <silver@MIT.EDU>
>
>Folks,
>
>	I'll tell you, I'm not sure what happened exactly to
>Strayhorn this weekend, but while I was working on it at about 4:30
>AM on Saturday morning (sorry I didn't mail sooner), some kind of
>electric pulse it looked like came through either the venetian blinds
>or the water cooler or something in that general area (I'm just saying
>this is what it looked like; I have no idea what it actually was) and
>struck strayhorn.  Then strayhorn popped, and the monitor popped up
>with a message saying it was in panic mode, and also with the little "Ok" 
>message at the bottom of the screen, so I typed "boot" but it wouldn't 
>restart.  
>	That's when strayhorn stopped working.  I had to switch comp-
>uters at that time.
>
>
>Sterling
>
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Mary J. Ziegler
ATIC Lab, Rm 11-103
253-7808
<http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/>


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