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- From: kruel@phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel)
- Subject: Re: SS2 crashes about half the time when Sparcprinter is used
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.151238.14748@phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de>
- Keywords: SparcStation SunOs 4.1.2 SparcPrinter NeWsPrint 2.0 CRASH
- Organization: Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie / Uni Wuerzburg
- References: <1992Jul31.023630.12003@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:12:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.023630.12003@athena.mit.edu> di@athena.mit.edu (David Israel) writes:
- >
- >I have a SparcStation-2 running SunOs 4.1.2 with the standard SparcPrinter
- >setup. The SparcPrinter is running NeWSprint version 2. >...<
- >
- >The whole thing chugs along happily unless the printer is used.
- >A job sent to the printer might be printed fine, but about half the time,
- >it will stop in the middle because the entire system has crashed. On the
- >couple of occasions that I've seen the console error messages they have
- >included "Panic - memory fault", but more often than not, the screen will
- >have been "screenblank"ed (there's usually no one sitting at the console),
- >so I've only seen this a couple of times. After the crash, the system
- >usually does NOT respond to L1-A, and I have to cycle the power to revive it.
- >
- >My memory is unclear on whether these problems have only started since the
- >kernel was reconfigured as above, or whether they existed when I was using
- >the "GENERIC_SMALL-ASYNCHIO" kernel, since it took some time to
- >realize that the crashes were triggered by printing. I also have an
- >older SS-2 running 4.1.1b and NeWsPrint 1, and have never had similar
- >problems. Anybody have a clue? Thanks.
- >
- I'm not absolutely sure, but the reason might be rebuilding the kernel
- WITHOUT having NewsPrint locally installed on your system. The make
- process looks for the presence of NewsPrint and modifies some internals
- (don't memorize now, but can grab it out). If NewsPrint is not locally
- available and reboot with the new kernel, you'll experience the troubles
- described.
-
- We have had EXACTLY the same problem until the guys from the SUN support told
- us what was going wrong.
-
- Hope that's it,
- Thomas.
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