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From: chute@dartvax.UUCP (Christopher Chute)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: More error message woes (more help please)
Message-ID: <3141@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 22:20:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 22:20:08 1985
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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  Sorry folks, still need help.  My UNIX PC pulled a repeat performance, this
time I tried some methods to figure out what was going on.  Breifly, it
started to be page bound, seemingly doing nothing, just after I had signed
on.  I was again trying to reset the date time from the User Agent
environment.  I entered  the UNIX window (after many minutes waiting) and ran
whodo.  It showed me about 10 copies of sh being run by w1, w2, and w3.  In
addition w1 was running uucico, uuxqt, uucio, and cron. w2 was running ed,
and w3 was *also* running cron. This kept up for over forty minutes, with my
hardly getting a word in edgewise.  The process ID's were at about 630 (I had
just turned on my machine with a dead battery and done no meaningful work)
before I tried to logout, the following were running: w1- cron, uuclean and
seven copies of sh, w3- cron.  I thought it odd that two copies of cron had
somehow been started.  
  Trying to logout was more interesting.  Issuing shutdown (from the User
Agent window) eventually yielded:

panic trap vector 5
type = 0x5 pid=3 pc=0xD2E rps=0x2004 p=0x2F5CE
GSR=DD00 BSRO=FC43 BSR1=0 PHYSPF=30
D0=0 D1=0 D2=2709 D3=0 D4=0 D5=0 D6=1 D7=0
A0=1B808 A1=23F48 A2=3348E A3=1E A4=1E A5=75E04 A6=70860 A7=2FF89E
panic: trap

I received the customary "Files Damaged - Being Repaired" (how reassuring in a
clinical research environment) when I rebooted.  Recall my previous news
posting about:
swap: rmap ovflo, lost [653,661]
(incidently, responses to that panic cry have been 0)

Now folks, I'm just a dumb physician using these here computers for research
purposes.  I bought the 7300 so I wouldn't have to speak hexadecimal too
often.  Forgive me if I am violating the news group with stupid questions,
but I don't know what's going on and I don't know who to ask.  Looks like
this OS is over my head after all, despite the elegent window interface.
  Any leads on what I should do now (I clearly cannot trust data in such an
environment until I understand what's happening) or perhaps to whom I should
be sending such moans and groans, would be appreciated.
  Cheers,
  Chris Chute MD
  Dartmouth Medical School