[16270] in Athena Bugs
Ultra 10 / 8.2: w20-575-23 hard hang
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Aug 30 22:52:55 1998
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:52:52 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
A user came into the SIPB office reporting that his
Ultra 10 had hung hard. He'd been browsing the web in
Netscape and the mouse pointer was at the top of the
netscape window with the mwm icon indicating the position
to resize the window at.
STOP-A did not function. Unplugging the keyboard generated a beep
but nothing else. The front panel power button didn't help.
I used the hard switch on the rear.
There was no useful diagnostic info gathered, and I didn't have
time to check the syslogs, but I doubt there were any.
If this persists, we should consider enabling deadman kernels on
the Ultra 10s (set snooping=1 in /etc/system) in order to trap
on watchdog resets.
--jhawk
