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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: (mchk) It is killing my system! HELP!
Message-ID: <12646@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 88 02:51:00 GMT
References: <6365@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <6365@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> led@athena.mit.edu (Jay Jungawala)
writes:
>... adb -k ... says that it died in mchk. ... What IS mchk?

mchk() is the machine check handler routine.  A machine check is
a hardware detected error.  Some machine checks can be brought about
by software bugs; others always indicate real hardware problems.

Since you are running Ultrix, you should call DEC and have them
diagnose the problem.
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