[5326] in Hotline Meeting
galen in E25-131
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer)
Thu Jun 6 09:32:10 1991
From: dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer)
To: jjmorey@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 05 Jun 91 18:21:27 -0400.
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 91 09:27:34 EDT
>>Frequently one encounters this machine in the Athena xlogin "hung"
>>state for several days. For example, it's 6/5 and it had apparently
>>hung on Jun 1.
>>This has been reported before.
>This station was found up and running with no problems.
>all o.k. now.
Please.
All is NOT OK now.
The problem is that this machine will run for a few days and then hang
with the screen display frozen with the new Athena xlogin time-of-day
display indicating at what time it froze up. When I came in yesterday
galen had hung on Jun 1. Rebooting "fixes" the problem temporarily.
OF COURSE you're not going to see any problems. I mentioned in my note
that I'd rebooted the machine upon finding it wedged. That doesn't mean
the problem has been fixed or it has disappeared!
This manner of "solving" the problem is undoubtedly why I've had to
report it more than once.
/Steve
