[2727] in Athena Bugs
Re: problems with the VS2 kernel on movies (a vax parallax)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 7 22:43:08 1989
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 22:42:50 -0400
To: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of Mon, 7 Aug 89 21:52:37 EDT,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> I beg to differ. I hadn't been aware that there were such problems.
> I've seen one or maybe two comments about crashes (basically, that it
> did so), but most of the reports from hal@movies have been regarding
> the X software or other problems. Never mind making assumptions about
> the cause of them....
Let me assure you that this has been a very common problem with Hal's
machine ever since he took 6.3B (he had previously been running 6.2A
without problems). He has averaged about 6 kernel panics per day:
Reserved Operand, but unfortunately, there has been no dump as of yet,
nor any display of any PC address. I had asked John to look into this
since I suspected that something in the plx code was tickling the
problem. We were hoping to get more information prior to sending in a
bug report and this is what John has given us.
-Richard
