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From: buck@drax.gsfc.nasa.gov (Loren (Buck) Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: grcond error logging
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Date: 5 Oct 90 00:38:02 GMT
References: <9010031947.AA10488@chem.chem.ucsd.edu>
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Reply-To: buck@drax.UUCP (Loren (Buck) Buchanan)
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In article <9010031947.AA10488@chem.chem.ucsd.edu> sdempsey@UCSD.EDU (Steve Dempsey) writes:
>Grcond (the mysterious, undocumented graphics console daemon) displays some
>very annoying behavior with regards to its use of SYSLOG.

Talking about grcond & syslogd, we got the following recently:

grcond[16092]: Child process /bin/wsh terminated with status 9
grcond[16092]: CIO: sc0: Unexpected info phase, state 49 phase 46
grcond[16092]: CIO: sc0,1: Resetting SCSI bus: stray interrupt error, phase 0x46, state 0x49
grcond[16092]: CIO: dks0d1s0 bad return 2 from scsi driver
grcond[16092]: CIO: 
grcond[16092]: CIO: NOTICE: i/o error in swap, [ groui ] -- dev 0x1621, blkno 0x9A18
grcond[16092]: CIO: Hangup
grcond[16092]: Child process /bin/news_server terminated with status 0


It killed the application and the wsh the application had been run from.
Upon logging back in, the following was added to SYSLOG:

grcond[16218]: CIO: resid of 44, count 96
grcond[16218]: CIO: resid of 44, count 96
grcond[16218]: CIO: resid of 60, count 96
grcond[16218]: CIO: sc0: Unexpected info phase, state 49 phase 46
grcond[16218]: CIO: sc0,1: Resetting SCSI bus: stray interrupt error, phase 0x46, state 0x49
grcond[16218]: CIO: dks0d1s0 bad return 2 from scsi driver
grcond[16218]: CIO: 
grcond[16218]: CIO: NOTICE: i/o error in swap, [ groui ] -- dev 0x1621, blkno 0x9A18

What could cause the SCSI error?  I think it might be due to the new tape
drive and cable.  The resid messages I think are the results of a program
I am writing to access the new tape drive via the SCSI driver, but I
haven't run the program since yesterday.  None of these messages are
documented in Appendix C-4 of the System Admin. Guide.  What do these
messages mean?

We are running IRIX 3.2 on a 4D/20.

Thankx & B Cing U

Buck

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