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From: lee@unmvax.UUCP
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Subject: 4.2, berknet and crashes
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Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 14:59:05 EST
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Subject: Berknet on a dh crashes the system
Index: .../sys/h/bk.h
.../sys/vaxuba/dh.c .../sys/sys/tty.c .../sys/sys/tty_bk.c 4.2BSD
Description:
We have two DH lines dedicated to berknet. These are used
fairly heavily. The machine (a 780) cannot stay up for
more than ten days. The crash is always on the line
*tp->t_cp++ = c;
at the instruction
cvtlb r10, *4(r11)
in the BKINPUT macro from .../sys/h/bk.h
No crash dumps are taken; nor are the disks synched. Just
alot of "protection fault" panics and then a reboot.
It looks like the buffer gets deallocated.
However, I cannot find where this might be happening.
We have other machines using berknet on DZ's and they have
never had the problem. Strange...
Repeat-By:
Got me!?
Any help in, either the form of a fix or in modifying the routines
involved in a crash so that I can get a dump would be appreciated.
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--Lee (Ward)
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From: BostonU SysMgr <root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
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Subject: Re: 4.2, berknet and crashes
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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 16:22:46 EST
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Just as a vote of confidence, I too run a
780 4.2bsd w/ DHs. I put up berknet and
the system crashed almost immediately.
It was a while back and I didn't really
need it (I wrote a remote laser printer
spooler for our 20 over RS232 which
could take advantage of the berknet low
level stuff if it worked.)
I too would be interested in fixes etc.
-Barry Shein, Boston University
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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: 4.2, berknet and crashes
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Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 00:06:14 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 30 00:06:14 1984
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Don't get your hopes too high. Somebody (George Goble??) at Salt Lake
said "the only fix for 4.2 Berknet is to unplug it".
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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