Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:93 comp.sys.att:1825 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!unisoft!gethen!farren From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Mysterious crashes on UNIX pc. Keywords: crash, dead, reset Message-ID: <450@gethen.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 10:30:47 GMT References: <174@icus.UUCP> Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland Lines: 17 In article <174@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >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 These interrupts occur when your line printer is powered on and off, or any other time the system sees enough noise on the parallel port lines. >Should I be worried? No. I get 'em all the time, and haven't had a problem yet. -- Michael J. Farren | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just {ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday." gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa | Tom Reingold, from alt.flame