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From: ben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ben Fried)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 1.2 1005 with DOS Merge--error msg when switching screens
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.174331.10805@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 17:43:31 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.163807.20712@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: ben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ben Fried)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
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In article <1990Aug28.163807.20712@athena.mit.edu> Steve Dyer writes:

  > After applying the 1005 patches, typing "open dos" and switching
  > between HFT screens causes the kernel error message
  > 
  > 	Warning Switch list Corruption
  > 
  > to be printed on the console.  Switching between HFTs without
  > running DOS doesn't cause this problem to occur.  Has anyone
  > else seen this?  Can people at Locus comment on the problem?
  > Can it be ignored?
  > 

We had the same problem with this update; after phoning it in to IBM,
the response we got back was to use the key sequence to turn off console
messages (left ctrl,left alt, right-shift, then hit 2, then return), and
that there's going to be a major set of fixes shipped "around the end of
August" (we got 1005 several weeks ago) that would fix this.

Turning off console messages turns off _all_ console messages, though,
which is not necessarily a good thing - it seems like a primitive
workaround.  

I'm really looking forward to the next 19-disk update :-(.

  > Steve Dyer
  > dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka ...!{harvard,linus,ima,m2c,rayssd}!spdcc!dyer
  > dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu

Ben
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