hans@duttnph.UUCP (Hans Buurman) (01/27/89)
Yesterday our file server (Sun 4/280, Sun Os 4.0) stopped working. At least, it was no longer possible to log in, or be logged in as a user. It didn't respond to that. However, clients were served as usual, all daemons ran normally and remote shells to the server were executed normally. So: rsh server ps -agux showed me the processes running, etc. I was editing on the server, and could continue on a client by killing the edit job, ftp-ing the /tmp files to the client, and vi -r there. We found nothing wrong with the server with ps,sps or top. Perfmeter gave normal readings. However, after 30 minutes, the system crashed with: Jan 26 16:53:21 duttnph vmunix: panic: chgstropts: can't allocate stroptions message My idea is that the process that stopped the server didn't flush a buffer, and the system crashed on that. If we knew what the buffer was for, we might find out what went wrong. We have had to reboot a number of workstations with the same symptoms the last couple of days, so we are curious what's wrong. Can any of the noble wizards give a hint ? Hans Disclaimer: any opinions expressed above are my own. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Buurman | hans@duttnph.UUCP Pattern Recognition Group | mcvax!hp4nl!dutrun!duttnph!hans Faculty of Applied Physics | tel. 31 - (0) 15 - 78 46 94 Delft University of Technology |