[8002] in testers
Re: m12-182-? is sad
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Seering)
Thu Apr 16 21:45:14 2009
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From: Adam Seering <aseering@MIT.EDU>
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Should X hang/die in such a situation, though? My experience with
Athena 9 is that it generally recovers (enough to log in, at least) in a
matter of seconds after being unplugged for an extended period.
Admittedly, though, I've only tried this a few times.
Adam
On 4/16/09 9:41 PM, Mitchell E Berger wrote:
> You didn't try rebooting it? If the network cable has been out for
> a length of time, a whole bunch of things on the machine are going
> to have noticed (among them, AFS, zhm, syslogd, aptitude, etc.), and while
> they may recover given time, assuming that the machine will immediately
> be fine upon reinserting the cable is generally not accurate.
>
> Mitch
>
>> Hey,
>> The DebAthena computer adjacent to M12-182-4 (it doesn't have a label
>> and I can't log in to check) is currently sad. Its Ethernet cable was
>> unplugged when I walked up to it. I plugged it back in, and tried to
>> log in; the login hung while trying to render my applications bar. I
>> killed X (ctrl-alt-bksp); the machine is now sitting at a text console.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>
