The problem appears to be a bug in the kernel for the SS2. There is
a patch for it:
Patch-ID# 100232-01
Keywords: crash, cpu, light, goes, off, screen, black, sparcstation 2, sunos, 4.1.1
Synopsis:Sparcstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.1 crashes under some applications
Date: 28/Feb/91
SunOS release:
4.1.1
Unbundled Product:
Unbundled Release:
Topic: Sparcstation 2, SS2, crash, blank, screen, powercycle
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1050558
Architectures for which this patch is available: sun4c
Patches which may conflict with this patch:
Obsoleted by:
Problem Description:
It has been reported that large applications that run fine under SunOS 4.1.1
on the SS-1 / SS-1+ and other SUN4 machines, crash the SS-2 machine running
SunOS 4.1.1.
The symptoms are:
screen goes black
cpu light goes out
L1-A does not work
user typically has to power the machine off and restart machine again
I have got the patch and will install it today.
Thanks to:
ballard@coquille.ico.tek.com
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Consultant)
taylor@astro.ufl.edu
Martin Walter <mawa@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
gbarker@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk (Dr Gareth J. Barker)
mitt@ice.mitre.org (Jeff Mittelman)
tsacas@ilog.ilog.fr (Stephane Tsacas)
tom@yac.llnl.gov
sane!genmri!figueira@crdgw1.ge.com (Mike Figueira)
feldt@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Andy Feldt)
alexl@daemon.cna.tek.com (alex;923-4483)
<toense@cplxsys.ncsl.nist.gov>
mlg@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu (Meg Grice)
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