[12183] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: S-plus exited abnormally
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alexp@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jul 1 12:44:22 1994
From: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 12:44:12 EDT
To: rdhamlin@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
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>Subject: decmips 7.6G: S-plus exited abnormally
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 14:19:09 EDT
>
>System name: milanese
>Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G (1 update(s) to same version)
>Display type: X
>
>What were you trying to do?
>
>I was using S-plus running under Emacs.
>
>What's wrong:
>
>Here are the last lines of my S+ session before it abruptly terminated.
>
> odoe > n<-24
> odoe > geo$prodwellte[n]
> [1] 223
> odoe > v<- 1.048320
> reqs[n]<-geo$fluidreqs[n]*1000/v/15850
>
> Process S exited abnormally with code 1
>
>I did not wait for it to process the 'v<-...' line before giving the
>'reqs...' line, but this has not caused a problem for me in the past
>(although most of the time I have waited for it). I copied that last
>line with emacs, but before I did that I put the cursor on a previous
>occurance of the line and hit Enter. Usually, that would copy the
>command to the end of the buffer and send it to S for processing. But
>when I did it this time, I got an error like "Command not found" or
>"Unknown Command" in the last line of the emacs window.
>
>What should have happened:
>
>S-plus should be not have terminated.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
>
Hello,
I have been looking at your bug report. We have had various software
problems with milanese before and it is very likely due to the very
heavy load on it. I don't think the problem is with S+ and since these
problems are generally not reproducible I don't think there is much
we can do about it.
It's not a good idea to run X over dialup now as milanese is the only
machine available. Expanded X dialup may become more feasible in the
future as a project is currently underway to set up such a service.
I would suggest working on a "regular" Athena machine. If the same problem
shows up there and is reproducible, I will be glad to report it to the
vendor. Please let me know if this is the case.
Alex Prengel, Jr.
Academic Computing Services
Software Acquisition Coordinator
