mccrory@linac.fnal.gov (Elliott McCrory) (03/02/90)
We were having a really obnoxious problem on our 4/260 (OS 4.0.3) recently: at a rate of about 2.5 times per (24-hour) day, our machine would act as if it received a `stop-A' type watchdog reset, ie, the type of reset you get when you enter a `stop-A' from the console keyboard. It kept getting worse. Since we were working on a complex driver in the kernal at the time, we assumed that we were screwing up in there. But, one morning, one of our Grad Students (hurray!) took the keyboard to a source of compressed air, blew it out, rebooted, and since then everything has been peachy. The morals of this story are (1) the world would probably stop without Grad Students, (2) Dirty Sun keyboards are *real bad*, and (3) really complex problems often have really simple solutions. Elliott McCrory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL 60510 Mail net: mccrory@linac.fnal.gov (or, Vax address of mccrory@fnalc.fnal.gov) Phone net: (708) 840-4414 or 4808