[3768] in Athena Bugs
6.3B vax AFS client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 3 15:09:39 1989
From: brlewis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 89 15:09:21 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Every time anyone tries to run /afs/athena/contrib/sipb/vaxbin/xscreensaver
from a pika workstation, a panic results. Any read or execute of a
large file (>200K crashes for sure) yields the same.
If anyone wants to chase down the bug,
cd `attach -p bitbucket`/afsbug
uncompress crash.tar.Z
tar xvf crash.tar
This will produce the vmcore and vmunix files that I hope will prove
useful. Lust.mit.edu was running standard vmunix.vs2 when I
deliberately crashed it by running xscreensaver, leaving the following
in /usr/adm/messages:
Dec 2 11:17:38 lust vmunix: mbuf map full
Dec 2 11:17:38 lust vmunix: panic: sleep
Dec 2 11:17:38 lust vmunix: syncing disks... 2 2 done
Dec 2 11:17:39 lust vmunix: Athena 4.3BSD UNIX #6-3-20 (probe@paris:VS2) Tue Jul 18 15:19:14 EDT 1989
Bruce