[6957] in Athena Bugs
Re: kernel empty text message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 25 11:54:19 1991
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 91 11:54:05 -0500
To: jik@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
[6954] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Athena Bugs 01/25/91 09:50 (16 lines)
Subject: kernel empty text message
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 91 09:50:27 -0500
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I got an "empty text" message from my kernel a few minutes ago. I thought we
took this message out, but perhaps we left it for appropriate occasions, and
this might have been one.
Hecate went down while I was running emacs from the emacsdev locker on it. I
xkill'd the emacs window, which of course didn't make the process go away rightaway. when the swap to hecate finally timed out, I got "swap: read error from
swap space," and then shortly after, the "empty text" message.
SHould I have gotten this message?
-- jik
The race condition that was expected to produce this message was fixed,
but the actual message was left behind. The symptoms that you describe
can certainly lead to this message being printed, since you did get the
swap error. Whether it is appropriate to print the message in this case
or some others is still a question in my mind. It is basically a
warning that it encountered a zero-length text as it was trying to free
it.
By the way, you forgot the workstation version in your bug report, so I
am assuming you meant RT 7.2P. (I forgot the machine type in my first
reply, since that is also important).
-Richard
