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From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Mysterious crashes on UNIX pc.
Message-ID: <174@icus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 87 12:16:55 GMT
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
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Keywords: crash, dead, reset

A few months ago there was some discussion on mysterious crashes on
the UNIX pc.  A few people eluded in having extra login-getty's in
/etc/inittab for the window caused them to crash the machine on occasion.
Well I had these, and removed them to see if my crashes that happened
every couple of weeks of continuous running was caused by them.  Well
they're not.

Last night my machine was running fine...this morning (or afternoon)
when I woke up at 1:30pm (It was a late night for me :-) ) I hit the
space bar to wake up the screen saver ... and went to login to see
what's going on.  To my dismay, nothing I typed did anything.  The mouse
moved, but keyboard responses were nil.   It seems to be a problem with
the window manager (wmgr) ... or maybe the system manager (smgr)?  It was
1:30pm, and the clock at the top said "10:06am"... I guess that's when it
crashed.  I couldn't do anything, except to press the reset button.

Has anyone else figured out how to remedy this?  I keep my machine running
continuously... Also I'm running 3.51.

Also what are these that comes up in the /usr/adm/unix.log pretty often?

	Spurious interrupt - level 2 Sat Dec 12 16:58:51 1987

Should I be worried?

					-Lenny
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