[3043] in testers
Re: Opus has lost again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Aug 6 12:51:21 1996
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:51:02 -0400 (EDT)
To: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[34255] in Hotline Meeting"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Discussion with Nathan points out that opus was exhibitting the
"multiple xlogins running" problem again, shortly before it
failed, just like last time. This suggest the possibility that
there was a software origin to the problem rather than a hardware one.
Doesn't seem all that likely, but it's possible...
--jhawk
> [34255] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson) Hotline Meeting 08/06/96 09:36 (27 lines)
> Subject: Opus has lost again
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:35:25 -0400 (EDT)
> To: hotline@MIT.EDU
> Cc: sipb-staff@MIT.EDU
> From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
>
>
> Recall Marc's mail of 21 July:
>
> > Subject: opus, the sgi in the sipb office
> > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:24:09 EDT
> > From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
> >
> > it won't boot. originally it was complaining "cannot search on /" or
> > something like that. Since then, people have been experimenting with
> > sash, so it's failing differently.
>
> This problem has recurred. Doubtless we can reformat+reinstall again
> and the problem will disappear for a time. I think this is indicative
> of serious low-level disk problems and the hard disk, or perhaps the
> entire machine, should be replaced.
>
> I've left it in the broken state now.
>
> You guys have permission to nuke the contents of the disk and/or
> replace it.
>
> --jhawk
> --[34255]--
