[670] in Athena Bugs
A bug with workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (troxel@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 28 09:51:43 1988
From: <troxel@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 88 09:51:05 EDT
Program with which you had the problem: probably getty ??
Name of person who discovered the bug:D. E. Troxel
Their MIT phone number:3-2570
Their MIT address:36-683
Their Athena Login ID:troxel
Name of consultant reporting bug:none
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
Activate a workstation (VS2000), e.g. one in 38-600.
Type a bogus username and password, get the login prompt again,
Then type "control d" (without the quotes!).
The workstation then gets confused, tries to deactivate and can only do part
of the deactivation. It gets into a state where it can neither deactivate
or activate. It thus, is unusable until it is rebooted. I have not been
able to figure out a way to bring it back to life without rebooting.
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Fix (if you know what it is):
Not really but it seems to have something to do with getty not killing a
process so onew of the rvds or nfs mounted disks is busy and thus cannot
be unmounted.
