wierd 386 error
Alex Pournelle
alex at grian.cps.altadena.ca.us
Thu Mar 14 18:53:04 AEST 1991
I ran into a really really wierd one today--thought I'd share it with
you.
System that previously worked fine, suddenly stopped --when booted up,
it wouldn't get past cron startup. Just crashes.
Looked at it for a while -- suddenly realized that the customer had
taken the printer away, but left the parallel printer cable connected.
Removed it, rebooted, and it's fine. What could have been a panicky
multi-hour problem turned out to be ten minutes' luck. Damfino how a
simple cable could cause cron to hang, though.
ANY idea? Cable seems fine, on MS-DOS systems. You'll understand I'm
not too interested in trying it on the XENIX system!
Alex
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