gregory@BRL-LVAX.ARPA.UUCP (06/04/87)
Greetings, Last night our JOB_CONTROLer on our 8600 print out the following to OPCOM: %JBC-E-SYMDEL, unexpected symbiont process termination and -PSM-F-BADLOGIC, internal logic error detected at PC 0000CC03 At the same time our print queues died. I traced all of this down to a user trying to print out the file MAIL.DIR which is of course a directory file and contains non-standard text. The queue itself only displays the jobname MAIL so unless you include the /FULL qualifier you won't see that it's a *.dir. This 'garbage' text comes out at the printer similar to someone trying to print a *.exe file. The dead symbiont and logic error were repeatable with this file but not with smaller *.dir files. The printer just translated what it could and printed it out. I haven't tried a larger *.dir today since I do not want to disturb the queues just now. My questions are as follows: First, why is it only with a large *.dir file (or maybe this one in particular) does the job controller get confused. Second, after a /FULL was performed, next to the file name there was the following device:[user]mail.dir;1 (checkpointed) I can not seem to find in the manuals a further explanation of this flag/comment/remark. Thanks in advance for any info, Dan Gregory <> BRL-LFD, B120 <> <> Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD. 21005 <> <> (301) 278-3485 <> <> "Open the pod bay doors HAL. HAL?... HAL?!" - Dave Bowman - 2001 <> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ------