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- From: james@sam.contex.com (James McQueston)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: crimson hanging
- Keywords: crimson ip17 irix bug
- Message-ID: <2865@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:46:51 GMT
- Sender: news@contex.contex.com
- Lines: 26
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- We have been working very hard for two weeks now to narrow a
- knotty issue where irix gets hung after tape read operations.
-
- No login or shell will work, user processes stop, the cursor moves when
- you wiggle the mouse until you have done this for two or three seconds
- and then the cursor freezes in place (I assume the interrupt service
- routine finds that the input buffer is full).
-
- We just got our official Iris Partner shipment of 4.0.5A, which contained
- a letter from Carol J. Buckreus, Mgr CSD Software Distribution.
-
- The letter contains the following:
-
- We are in the process of planning a revision of 4.0.5A
- which will address an NFS LockD bug which limits the number
- of locked files and a Crimson R4000 kernel bug...
-
- Can someone explain the bug referred to at the end of that sentence so
- that we can consider it a possibility or rule it out? We are taking our
- hang problem through the TAC (#115939) but the above quotation is
- unsettling to us.
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- James H. McQueston james@contex.com
- Xyvision Color Systems, Inc. (617) 246-1776 x 5523
- Wakefield, MA 01880 (617) 245-4471
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