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- From: oreilly@scripps.edu (Patty O'Reilly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Newsprint2.0 Rev B bug
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.164151.18847@riscsm.scripps.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:41:51 GMT
- Sender: usenet@riscsm.scripps.edu
- Organization: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Has anyone run across Newsprint2.0 Rev B's latest bug? Don't install
- it on a Sparc2 unless your cache chips are manufactured by LSI, as AT&T
- chips will cause the kernel to Data fault the lpd process. We haven't
- been able to determine what the manufacturing dates are of Sparc2 CPU's
- that fail, but they appear to be in the middle of the manufacturing run.
-
- I've been in touch with numerous people at Sun and it seems this bug
- will not be addressed in future Newsprint releases. Instead, we are
- encouraged to purchase a CPU board upgrade (at $430 a pop), or downgrade
- our version of Newsprint to 1.0.
-
- For those of us with third party maintenance, due to ever increasing Sun
- maintenance prices, this could get expensive!
-
- We have nine Sparc printers on our network, eight of them are served by
- Sparc2s. And, unfortunately, Newsprint 2.0 Rev A has a really tedious
- bug that manifests itself when Macintosh's try to print. Newsprint's
- eehelper process creates a file that grows and grows until /tmp is full.
-
- What's happened to the Sun I knew and loved? It appears they have grown
- up to be yet another 3-letter computer company...
-
- --Patty (oreilly@scripps.edu)
-