wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) (10/18/90)
System: A/UX 2.0 Machine: Mac II CX Memory: 4 meg Drive: 80 meg internal Quantum SCSI Monitor: 256 color card + color monitor running in 4 color mode I have my machine set to come up in multifinder, requiring manually firing up A/UX. When I am in A/UX I log in as non-root user. I have selected ksh as my shell. I've noticed that if I have a process updating a burried window, that eventually after 12 hours or so the system will halt. There is no kernel panic dump on the screen. The mouse pointer is still mobile, but there is no response to clicking or typing. The only way out is to hit ye olde programmer's switch. You can reproduce this yourself by firing up /usr/games/worms in a command window, then pop up another command window, drag on top of the worms window and run something like "while true do cat /etc/termcap done" in the top window. After some indeterminite time, the system will poop out. Anybody else experienced this? It seems to only occur in overlapping windows. I've experimented with running the above in two windows that are not overlapping, and it's been running for about the last four days. I still am suspicious about my hardware. About 5 days after I got my system, the G.L.U. chip went south and started to cause all sorts of weird kernel panics. The mahcine was in the shop for a couple of weeks waiting for a new motherboard. Alas, my 30 days of free A/UX support dried up while waiting for repairs. ==Bill== -- Bill Mayhew NEOUCOM Computer Services Department Rootstown, OH 44272-9995 USA phone: 216-325-2511 wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu ....!uunet!aablue!neoucom!wtm via internet: (140.220.001.001)
wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) (10/22/90)
I received some hints about my problem from jk@apple. It turns out that it isn't necessary to go for the programmer's reset button if the system console hangs when several overlapping windows update simultaneously. Cmd-ctrl-E will unfreeze the console. The console user gets logged out, but the system says up in A/UX and it is possible to log in again with everything in a sane state. Apparently the console lock-up bug has been reported to tech support and a fix may at some time become available. I should point out that the preceeding paragraph in no way reflects any sort of official (or even unofficial!) policy statement on the part of Apple. Also, thanks to the folks at Apple. I got a call from Apple the other day, and found out that my 30 day tech support was being extended by an amount of time that the the machine was in the shop being serviced durring the initial 30 days. Bill -- Bill Mayhew NEOUCOM Computer Services Department Rootstown, OH 44272-9995 USA phone: 216-325-2511 wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu ....!uunet!aablue!neoucom!wtm via internet: (140.220.001.001)