bkc2@midway.uchicago.edu (Benjamin Clardy) (11/04/90)
I bought an IPC a few weeks ago and it ran fine until I installed a shoebox Fujitsu drive. In the course of hooking up the Fujitsu, I managed to cause a watchdog reset via SCSI. The file system took a fatal dive. The original OS (4.1) was loaded on the drive, but I restored (and re-partitioned the drives at the same time) via 1/4" tape. The system has not worked properly since. The system keeps crashing with something like: free inode 1130 had 262146 blocks panic: ialloc: dup alloc The system typically crashes only after going into a big application, i.e. Open Windows, SAS, or both. It seems that it crashes only after significantly (or at all) using swap space. Right now it is defined at 48MB. I think I have finally narrowed the problem down to the Open Windows. Sun was so thoughtful as to not include Open Windows on my 4.1 dist tape (even though it was supposed to be). I did do a full system backup before the system crashed with the original drive. So I have been pulling up the /usr/openwin directory up from tape and rerunning the install_filemgr and install_cmgr. Openwindows runs and everything seems to work fine, but sooner or later the system crashes (always fatal as well). Am I missing something by only taking /usr/openwin? Is this some evil plot by Sun to make me shell out $300 f**king bucks for a tape that I am already licensed to use? bkc2@midway.uchicago.edu benjamin clardy