[11490] in Athena Bugs
possible sparc bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lmtancre@MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 6 12:52:17 1993
From: lmtancre@MIT.EDU
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 93 12:51:55 EST
this is from an olc log:
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Log Initiated for user Eric Jorgensen (nebosite@SILVER.MIT.EDU [0]).
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:19pm]
Topic: frame
Question:
HELP! frame maker keeps crashing when trying to load my resume!
I am getting an afs partition full error...
Machine info:
Processor: SPARCstation Classic
Display : cgthree
Memory : 19956 user; 23360 (23 M) total
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--- Question grabbed by consultant lmtancre@MOMONEY.MIT.EDU [3].
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:22pm]
*** Reply from consultant lmtancre@MOMONEY.MIT.EDU [3].
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:24pm]
hi varmint,
first thing you need to do is delete all those pesky 6.037 files.
actually, are you near quota? if not, try loading in /tmp or in your
munga 50 MB 037 space unless its full too. the deal with partition is:
we give each user 5 meg, but most dont use it all, so in reality the afs
partition has less space then we've allocated to users. so if youre
over quota, try decreasing it. if not, you need to work on some other
partition.
/tmp is pretty big.
(this is my guess.. let me know if it doesnt help)
--lucy
--- User nebosite has logged out.
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:31pm]
--- Comment by user reidmp@WHIRLWIND.MIT.EDU [0].
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:34pm]
To get the /tmp suggestion to work, he should copy his resume to
/tmp and then open it from there. Frame writes autosave files
in the same place as the original document, so if he's short of
quota now, trying to do something like opening the resume in
his homedir and save-as'ing into /tmp from Frame won't get him
very far. However, unless there is something unusual about his
resume, he shouldn't need much free space. I'm working on a
moderately large document now (about 16-20 pages), and it is
a 100K file. The size doesn't really explode until you try and
incorporate bitmap images, graphics, etc.
--- User nebosite read reply.
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:35pm]
*** Reply from user nebosite@M66-080-3.MIT.EDU [0].
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:36pm]
I did load it into tmp and it still gave me a partition error. It also
does things like write a big recovery file and performa core dump..
*** Reply from user nebosite@M66-080-3.MIT.EDU [0].
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:39pm]
hmmm... I I have tried this now on three suns to the same effect. I just
moved over to a DEC3100 and the problem is gone. Looks
like a weird bug.
*** Reply from consultant lmtancre@MOMONEY.MIT.EDU [3].
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:42pm]
Here's a comment another consultant sent:
To get the /tmp suggestion to work, he should copy his resume to
/tmp and then open it from there. Frame writes autosave files
in the same place as the original document, so if he's short of
quota now, trying to do something like opening the resume in
his homedir and save-as'ing into /tmp from Frame won't get him
very far. However, unless there is something unusual about his
resume, he shouldn't need much free space. I'm working on a
moderately large document now (about 16-20 pages), and it is
a 100K file. The size doesn't really explode until you try and
incorporate bitmap images, graphics, etc.
You should sent this info with the error messages to testers@mit
They get bug reports on the sparcs.
You can refer them to this stock answer also; once you "done" it I can
send them the log number for their reference. Or you can just type
"replay" and send it to them.
--- User nebosite read reply.
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:42pm]
*** Reply from user nebosite@M66-080-3.MIT.EDU [0].
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:44pm]
OK. Thanks. I would appreciate it if you sent it to them.
Just some tidbits to help the testers...
- I had 1.5 megs left on my quota
- I did try copying my file to /tmp and editing it there. (didn't work)
--- User nebosite is done with question.
[Mon 06-Dec-93 12:45pm]
