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- From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
- Subject: Re: Regular crashing in ROM _Jackson, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.210346.22111@tdb.uu.se>
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- Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:03:46 GMT
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- Axello de Roestello (aroest@fwi.uva.nl) wrote:
- : Help!
- : For the last couple of months my Mac has been very 'crashy'. When I installed
- : Macsbug it showed me that it always goes into the debugger in the ROM ROUTINE
- : _Jackson, as shown below. Macsbug shows that many different programs could be
- : running at the time of the crash. Programs that have this behaviour are:
- : Nuntius, JPEGView, Eudora, Telnet. These are quite reliable programs on other
- : machines.
- : system specs: MacIIci 8/160, RasterOps 8/24XLi, sys 7.01 + 1.1.1, external 1Gb,
- : formatted with Micronet Utils 5.1.9 (anyone knows where to get a new one?),
- : I have various inits running.
- :
- : Does anyone know what this routine Jackson does, what it's for and why it is
- : in ROM? I mean, what good is a routine that jumps in the debugger immediately?
- : Any help would be highly appreciated since I'm thoroughly lost on this one.
- :
- :
- : Axel
- : ===========================
- : This is a log from Macsbug:
- :
- : System error #25 at 4083143A _Jackson+0000
-
- [deleted]
-
- System error #25 means out of memory. Try giving the application that is
- causing the crash more memory.
-
- /Mats
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- Mats Bredell Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
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