Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Mysterious crashes on UNIX pc.
Summary: I feel vindicated!!!!
	 other people have mysterious crashes too
Keywords: crash, dead, reset
Message-ID: <849@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 87 21:22:44 GMT
References: <174@icus.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Well that makes two other people besides me that have reported
mysterious lock-ups of their systems.  Both times I experienced
said lock-ups the machine was idle with only the minimal daemons
running.  The status line at the bottom kept insisting "not enough
memory: close some windows".  Funny thing was that only the full
screen window was there as I wasn't running the damn user agent.
(I really dislike the user agent.)

The second time I decided to let the system sit for a while to see
if smoke would billow out or something like that.  About an hour
and a half later, I gave the space bar a tentative tap, and
discovered that the system was back to normal.

A follow-up check of the log files revealed nary a message.

The hotline folks were rather unsympathetic, and essentially said
"tough".  I'm considering insisting on a new motherboard.  If it
doens't take six weeks like getting the replacement for my DOA
documentor's workbench disk did!

--Bill