[comp.sys.apollo] SR10.3 problems

howardm@lsilwm.uucp (Howard Moftich) (03/16/91)

In recently upgrading our lone DN4500 from SR10.1 to SR10.3 I have
encountered several annoying problems.  Has anyone else seen these
(or better yet, have a fix :-)?


1. uucp only works with a debug level of 4 or greater.  Anything
   else causes the line to be hungup within milliseconds of going
   off hook and a "LOST LINE" entry to be put in the status.
   Changing baud rates doesnt help.  The modem is a T2500.  Things
   worked perfectly at SR10.1 with the exact same configuration
   files.

2. The alias "alias ltm ls -alt|m" randomly works.  At other times
   all I get is "Killed" with a traceback that terminates with a 
   call to (I'll have to paraphrase here, I didnt write down the
   exact tb output) ec_$wait_forio.

3. On occasion uustat will simply give a segmentation fault, then
   a minute or so later will work fine.

As for environment, I involed the disk to defrag it using the 
re-initialize existing volume option (#3 ?) before loading
SR10.3.  SR10.1 was NOT installed using hard links but SR10.3
was installed using hard links.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.


Howard Moftich
LSI Logic Corp. - Waltham, MA    uunet!lsilwm!howardm

fridman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (fridman) (03/19/91)

In article <1991Mar15.165029.24870@lsilwm.uucp> howardm@lsilwm.uucp (Howard Moftich) writes:


   In recently upgrading our lone DN4500 from SR10.1 to SR10.3 I have
   encountered several annoying problems.  Has anyone else seen these
   (or better yet, have a fix :-)?


   1. ...

   2. The alias "alias ltm ls -alt|m" randomly works.  At other times
      all I get is "Killed" with a traceback that terminates with a 
      call to (I'll have to paraphrase here, I didnt write down the
      exact tb output) ec_$wait_forio.

  3. ...

   Howard Moftich
   LSI Logic Corp. - Waltham, MA    uunet!lsilwm!howardm


Our setup: DN4500, SR10.3.

There seems to be random behavior when using pipes!  I ran the following
commnad 3 times in a row before this (output is a direct past from another window):

% od /etc/hosts | more

Stopped (tty output)
[1] 3380 3381
% jobs
[1]  + Done                 od /etc/hosts |
       Stopped (tty output) more
%

When I typed "fg" the window froze!

NOTE: there is nothing wrong with the "od" command, "cat" works just as well and
/etc/hosts has 41 lines in it.

	RF.