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From: frederic@leland.Stanford.EDU (Frederic Chalot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Pixar...panic!
Message-ID: <1991May29.221324.29395@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 May 91 22:13:24 GMT
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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When returning home yesterday night after the splendid demo of RenderMan
by Ray Davis at NeXT in Redwood City, I had the bad surprise to find my
slab with the Login window covered by a System Panic window which was saying:

    panic: (Cpu 0) zalloc
    NeXt ROM Monitor 2.2 v63
    panic: NeXT Mach 2.0: Wed Nov 21 12:46:53 PST 1990;
    /ph1_sources/projects/mk-100.1/RELEASE

    killing all processes panic: (Cpu 0) zalloc
    NeXt ROM Monitor 2.2 v63
    panic: NeXT Mach 2.0: Wed Nov 21 12:46:53 PST 1990;
    /ph1_sources/projects/mk-100.1/RELEASE

I answered "reboot" to the "panic" prompt. I got the usual messages "Loading
from Disk..." and "Checking Disk...". Then everything froze for a
second, and the boot procedure apparently started all over again, but
this time leading me to a relieving Login window. :-) Since then everything
has been working fine.

Could anyone tell me what went wrong? My system had been up for about a
week when this incident happened. Should I leave it on all the time, or
is it better to turn it off every night? Could anyone comment on that?
Is this kind of thing frequent? Has it happened to anybody repeatedly
yet? Any comments or suggestions are of course more than welcome...

Thank you

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