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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
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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