mwu@TERI.BIO.UCI.EDU (Matt Wu) (12/14/90)
Yes, I know, two cries for help in the same day is a bit excessive. However, I never in my wildest imaginings thought that it would be so easy to wreak havok. I followed the instructions in "Configuring a Modem for tip and UUCP Software" in the "Network and System Administration" manual. I ran tip and discovered it didn't work. Fine. However, for some reason, tip didn't just stop. It remained running as a process even after I tried to kill it and even after I tried to kill -9 it. So I figured, no big deal, I'll just power down and power up again. Of course when I started to reboot, instead of going through the normal process, it gives me a window that's about an eighth the size of the screen of the Mach operating system. Oh great, I think, and type exit. The boot process continues as it normally does and I think Cool, no prob. Then I realize the mouse doesn't work (well, the mouse doesn't move anything around; when I clicked the menu button, a new menu appeared, but that was the only marker as to where the mouse was, and the menu did not move when I moved the mouse). Okay. So I figured if I just replace the files I changed (/etc/ttys and /etc/remote) it'd work fine. Yeah, right. Thinking that I may have typed them wrong, I went to my roommate's NeXT and copied the files onto floppy. Still no change. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Matt Wu mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu
mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu (Matt Wu) (12/15/90)
Thanks to everyone who answered my request for help regarding the mouse. Apparently, the problem was caused by corruption in the file system (it is not at all an impossibility that I am misusing the term). Anyway, following someone's suggestion, I did a fsck on the disk and, after rebooting (and running fsck again and rebooting) everything worked fine. I guess the /etc/ttys and /etc/remote files had nothing to do with the problem whatsoever. Considering this is the second problem I've had in about as many days, I guess I won't be trying to do anything involving hardware changes until the weekend is over, so there'll at least be a chance that I can reach someone by phone. Who knows? I might end up shutting down the neighborhood if I try to do something complex like hooking up a printer :-). Matt Wu mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu