rjv@icad.com (Ralph Verrilli) (01/04/91)
We recently received a number of Sparcstation 2's. We have had problems with all of them crashing, sort of like they experience a power failure. Has anyone else experienced this problem with the Sparcstation 2? If you have any information for me please email directly to me as I do not read this group on a regular basis. Thanks. By the way, we are running a large lisp application using Franz Common Lisp. email: rjv@icad.com
phillips@sparky.lcs.mit.edu (Mike Phillips) (01/06/91)
>We recently received a number of Sparcstation 2's. We have had problems >with all of them crashing, sort of like they experience a power failure. >Has anyone else experienced this problem with the Sparcstation 2? >By the way, we are running a large lisp application using Franz Common >Lisp. We had a similar problem (all our new SS2's were crashing in a weird sort of way - the screen would go blank and the machine wouldn't respond to anything not even l1-a). The culprit turned to be an old version of tcsh. I'm not sure when it was compiled (we don't have the source code and somebody who's gone now installed it) but it was over a year and a half ago. Anyway, I suspect that our old tcsh was doing something funky with the interupts that has changed on the SS2. It seems like maybe your Franz Lisp might be doing the same sort of thing. We just got version 5.20 of tcsh and now the machines work just fine. Mike (phillips@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu)
csb@gdwb.oz.au (Craig Bishop) (01/07/91)
rjv@icad.com (Ralph Verrilli) writes: >We recently received a number of Sparcstation 2's. We have had problems >with all of them crashing, sort of like they experience a power failure. >Has anyone else experienced this problem with the Sparcstation 2? We have had exactly the same problem. The screen would go blank, the audio port would pop and the machine died. The only thing that would get the machine up agian is a reboot. We tried all sorts of things to fix the problem eventually we found that the generic kernel stopped it from happening. >By the way, we are running a large lisp application using Franz Common >Lisp. We don't. Craig Bishop Geelong & District Water Board Phone: +61 52 262506 61-67 Ryrie St Geelong Fax: +61 52 218236 Victoria 3220 Australia