Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!uthub!utecfb!larry From: larry@utecfb.Toronto.Edu (Larry Philps) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: hanging uvaxIIs Message-ID: <113@utecfb.Toronto.Edu> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 10:16:43 EST Article-I.D.: utecfb.113 Posted: Mon Dec 22 10:16:43 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Dec-86 18:45:41 EST References: <1461@PUCC.BITNET> Reply-To: larry@utecfb.UUCP (Larry Philps) Organization: Engineering Computing Facility, University of Toronto Lines: 19 In article <1461@PUCC.BITNET> D0430@PUCC.BITNET writes: > >We have a pair of uvaxIIs running ultrix 1.1 with RFS (remote file system) >I believe we have the most recent corrections for RFS. Several times this >past week both machines have gone into some kind of tight loop, without >any sort of panic or error message. Consoles and all terminals were locked out >Forcing a reboot on one machine fixed the problem, and the last time it >unclogged itself after about 20 minutes without a reboot. >We have the upgraded DEQNA cards, but still have the old ultrix driver. The DEQNA upgrade is useless without a corresponding software upgrade. The deqna driver in both Ultrix 1.2 and 4.3BSD have the necessary fixes. We had the same problem you describe when running 4.3, but it went away after our DEQNA upgrade. -- Larry Philps Engineering Computing Facility University of Toronto Usenet: {linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd}!utcsri!utecfa!larry CSNET: larry@Toronto ARPA: larry%Toronto@CSNet-Relay