[6191] in Athena Bugs
ps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 9 18:16:45 1990
From: kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 90 18:16:32 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Machine info: VAXSTAR, SM, 0x2c9800 user, 0x3fd000 (4 M) total
An olc user tried to do a ps -aux on her workstation (w20-575-38) and
it failed with a bus error. Presumably because it was out of memory:
Here's the pertinent log extracts:
What does it mean when I say "attach ***(some directory)***" and Athena
responds with
"Can't malloc while parsing attachtab
Operation aborted"
I then sent her the stock answer on killin leftove processes, and it said:
Hey, it reads "Bus error" for the first (and only) entry under USER...
This is not a graceful failure.
--beth
