greg@cityzoo.acs.umbc.edu (Greg Sylvain,Lib 007a,3929,6445148) (02/06/91)
From: greg@math13.math.umbc.edu (Greg Sylvain) Path: math13.math.umbc.edu!greg Newsgroups: comp.sys.ultrix Subject: Spell dumps core on DS5000/200...why??? Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: greg@umbc3.umbc.edu (Greg Sylvain) Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Mathematics Department University of Maryland, Baltimore County Keywords: Hello all, I hope somebody has an idea ? I have some diskless clients here that have problems executing a simple program, /usr/bin/spell. The machines in question are all the DS5000/200 the the math department has. All of them have the 3D graphics option, and all dump core while running the /usr/bin/spell program. However, the same /usr partition is shared with some DS3100's, and they don't have any problem executing this program. I also logged into another 5000 here on campus (that doesn't have a graphics option card), and it's spell program worked fine. Also, the checksums for the 2 programs were different. So I ftp'd the program over one of the graphics boxes, but it sumped core just like the system spell program, and the checksums remained different. Here are the checksum's that I get, the sizes are the same : math13:greg: > sum ./spell 11615 5 math13:greg: > sum /usr/bin/spell 19313 5 math13:greg: > ls -l /usr/bin/spell ./spell -rwxr-xr-x 1 greg 4262 Feb 5 09:24 ./spell* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 4262 Aug 28 15:16 /usr/bin/spell* The ./spell program was the one that I brought over from the other 5000. Does anyone have an explanation for this. All of the DecStation here on campus are now running 4.1 Ultrix. (The ones with the graphics card and not), and the hardware is all revision 5.3c . Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, greg Greg Sylvain UUCP: ...!{uunet}!umbc3!greg Academic Computing Services Internaet (arpa): greg@umbc3.umbc.edu Systems Programmer BITNET: GREGS@UMBC