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From: gregory@BRL-LVAX.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: key words: JOB_CONTROL, SYMBIONT TERMINATION, INTERNAL LOGIC ERROR...
Message-ID: <8706040355.AA12336@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 23:56:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 23:56:24 1987
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Reply-To: "Daniel L. Gregory" <gregory@brl-lvax.ARPA>
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Greetings,

Last night our JOB_CONTROLer on our 8600 print out the following to OPCOM:
%JBC-E-SYMDEL, unexpected symbiont process termination
and
-PSM-F-BADLOGIC, internal logic error detected at PC 0000CC03

At the same time our print queues died.
I traced all of this down to a user trying to print out the file
MAIL.DIR
which is of course a directory file and contains non-standard text.  The
queue itself only displays the jobname MAIL so unless you include the /FULL 
qualifier you won't see that it's a *.dir.  This 'garbage' text comes out at 
the  printer similar to someone trying to print a *.exe file.  The dead 
symbiont and logic error were repeatable with this file but not with 
smaller *.dir files.  The printer just translated what it could and printed
it out.  I haven't tried a larger *.dir today since I do not want to 
disturb the queues just now.

My questions are as follows:
First, why is it only with a large *.dir file (or maybe this one in particular)
does the job controller get confused.
Second, after a /FULL was performed, next to the file name there was 
the following
device:[user]mail.dir;1 (checkpointed)
I can not seem to find in the manuals a further explanation of this
flag/comment/remark.

Thanks in advance for any info,
Dan Gregory

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