[8679] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3P: xclac
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 27 05:41:24 1991
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 05:41:37 -0500
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
System name: james-blish
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3P
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Play with xcalc (started as xcalc -rpn -stipple -rv &);
spefically, I hit the 'ON' button, and then the e^x button 5 times.
What's wrong:
On the 5th try, xcalc froze, with the button highlighted, and
stooped accepting input. It didn't respond to an expose event, and
died a few seconds later, with the message:
[ 4:59am | 216 ] Work/6.001/PS9 :->
DISK LIMIT REACHED (host APHRODITE.MIT.EDU) - WRITE FAILED
[1] Illegal instruction xcalc -rpn -stipple -rv
[ 5:27am | 216 ] Work/6.001/PS9 :->l
total 339
drwxrwxr-x 2 yandros 512 Nov 27 05:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 yandros 512 Nov 18 17:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 yandros 434176 Nov 27 05:27 core
-rw-rw-r-- 1 yandros 5882 Nov 27 04:25 ec-eval-trace.txt
-rw------- 1 yandros 1808 Nov 23 13:39 load.scm
-rw------- 1 yandros 8843 Nov 27 05:19 reg-mach.scm
[note the lack of a (core dumped) message, probably due to the disk limit.]
I was able to repeat this, and get the message:
[2] Illegal instruction xcalc -rpn -stipple -rv (core dumped)
by killing xcalc myself as soon as it froze. Frozen coredumps are 777 in /mit/bitbucket/core.xcalc(2).yandros.F, please remove whenever no longer necessary.
What should have happened:
Well, soething other than a coredump, probably, and it should
have tried to mention the coredump BEFORE bashing me into my hard
limit, not after.
-C
