[6065] in Athena Bugs
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 19 11:41:41 1990
From: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 90 11:41:22 EDT
Subject: rt 7.1H: init
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System name: podge
Type and version: ??? DECstation 7.1H
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
almost anything at all
What's wrong:
init is swapped out, and it's not coming back. ps listing:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND
bjaspan 22816 31.3 9.5 612 500 p0 R 0:00 ps auxww
root 190 0.0 0.4 20 12 ? S 3:18 /etc/update -n
bjaspan 22695 0.0 0.1 0 0 co Z 0:00 <exiting>
daemon 106 0.0 1.8 132 88 ? I 0:07 /etc/syslog
root 77 0.0 0.1 204 0 ? D 0:41
root 76 0.0 0.1 204 0 ? D 0:41
root 194 0.0 0.8 48 36 ? I 0:19 /etc/cron
root 75 0.0 0.1 204 0 ? D 0:40
root 68 0.0 4.2 400 216 ? I 1:06 /etc/named /etc/named.boot
root 72 0.0 0.1 204 0 ? D 0:00
root 73 0.0 0.1 204 0 ? D 0:29
root 22722 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 74 0.0 0.1 204 0 ? D 0:46
root 2 0.0 0.1 1632 0 ? D 2:14 pagedaemon
root 278 0.0 0.0 188 0 ? RW 0:00 /etc/elcsd
root 0 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? D 1:12 swapper
root 22728 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22494 0.0 0.0 60 0 v0 IW 0:00 sh /etc/athena/xdm/Xsession .fast_login
bjaspan 22752 0.0 5.4 360 280 p0 S 0:01 -sh (csh)
bjaspan 22499 0.0 0.0 348 148 v0 RW 0:00 csh -f ./.fast_login
root 22725 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22537 0.0 0.1 0 0 v0 Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22575 0.0 0.0 144 0 p2 RW 0:06 telnet gevalt
root 218 0.0 0.0 32 0 ? IW 0:02 /etc/biod 4
root 1 0.0 0.0 328 0 ? RW 1:10 /etc/init -a
root 216 0.0 0.0 32 0 ? IW 0:02 /etc/biod 4
root 215 0.0 0.0 32 0 ? IW 0:02 /etc/biod 4
root 214 0.0 0.0 164 0 ? RW 0:05 /etc/inetd
root 22452 0.0 0.0 208 0 co IW 0:01 - ttyv0 console (toehold)
root 217 0.0 0.0 32 0 ? IW 0:02 /etc/biod 4
root 236 0.0 2.1 220 104 ? I 8:19 /etc/athena/zhm
daemon 228 0.0 0.7 676 32 ? S 1:39 /etc/snmpd
root 22731 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22515 0.0 0.1 0 0 co Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22805 0.0 0.1 0 0 co Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22488 0.0 16.6 1688 876 co S 6:59 - bc -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/screen75 :0 ttyv0 (Xmfbpmax)
bjaspan 22527 0.0 0.1 0 0 co Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22737 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22740 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22511 0.0 0.1 0 0 co Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22696 0.0 0.1 0 0 co Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22715 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22719 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22489 0.0 0.0 1244 0 v0 RW 0:01 - -L -config /etc/athena/xdm/xlogin-config -display :0 ttyv0 (xlogin)
bjaspan 22530 0.0 0.0 352 148 p2 RW 0:01 -sh (csh)
bjaspan 22513 0.0 6.8 756 356 v0 I 0:10 /mit/x11/decmipsbin/twm
root 22713 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22804 0.0 0.1 0 0 v0 Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22813 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 231 0.0 1.3 164 64 ? I 0:17 /etc/timed
bjaspan 22810 0.0 0.1 0 0 p0 Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22808 0.0 0.1 0 0 p0 Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22806 0.0 0.1 0 0 p0 Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22809 0.0 0.1 0 0 p0 Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22522 0.0 0.0 44 0 p1 RW 0:00 /usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs/etc/server
bjaspan 22751 0.0 17.2 980 912 v0 S 0:01 xterm
root 22733 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
root 22710 0.0 0.1 0 0 ? Z 0:00 <exiting>
bjaspan 22744 0.0 0.1 0 0 v0 Z 0:00 <exiting>
What should have happened:
It shouldn't lose like this. Although it is a neat failure
mode. This also happened on hodge (another pmax) two nights ago.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
DEC kernel sources? Ha. My sympathies.
