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From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: degenerating WriteNow
Keywords: internal consistency error
Message-ID: <25342@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 8 Jun 89 08:29:39 GMT
References: <491@chem.ucsd.EDU>
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In article <491@chem.ucsd.EDU> sfl@chem.ucsd.edu (Susan Fichera) writes:
>
>We now have a situation where every read of a WriteNow document fails,
>and the WriteNow program can not be initiated from the Applications Dock.
>This error panel is presented each time, preceeded by a panel that says
>
>	File System error. You do not have permission for that operation.

I just got the same error alert panel when launching WriteNow from
the dock.  Doing fsck reported problems with the file

/private/vm/swapfile

Clearing this and rebooting seem to have fixed the problem.

Izumi Ohzawa
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu