[6233] in Athena Bugs
help / 4-035
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Oct 17 14:10:56 1990
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 90 12:50:33 EDT
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: mgmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: mgmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Wed, 17 Oct 90 11:49:04 -0400 <9010171549.AA16503@NAVIGATOR.MIT.EDU>
From: mgmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 90 11:49:04 -0400
A user in the 4-035 cluster was using emacs and an xterm. She typed
help, and after a long pause, her console said I/O error, the screen
flashed blank, and then the workstation crashed and began to reboot.
This is all the info I have (my guess is not enough memory, but I don't
pretend to understand this stuff).
It sounds more to me like a bad hard disk. "Not enough memory" does
not cause a workstation to reboot. Which workstation was it?
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
