[m-dev.] murlibobo

[Fergus Henderson]

On 10-Mar-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 10-Mar-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The news from Aaron about murlibobo's recent problems
> > is that apparently it had some faulty SIMMs.  For the moment
> > the offending board has been removed, so murlibobo should be
> > stable now (albeit with half the memory, not that we're likely to notice).
> 
> Well, maybe.  I just got this:
> 
> MERCURY_C_INCL_DIR=../runtime MERCURY_INT_DIR=../library
> /home/pgrad/trd/bin/scripts/lmc ws1  --compile-to-c --grade asm_fast.gc
> --no-infer-all --halt-at-warn --stack-trace make_hlds.m > make_hlds.err
> 2>&1
> inst fault=4, status word=               8, pc=       1203ffbbc
> 
> Start it up again, and it works fine.
> 
> (At least it didn't hang the machine).

This can occur if you execute the Mercury compiler at exactly the
same time that a new one is being installed.  Normally this is about
3:30am, so it doesn't happen very often...
but the nightly install may have been run during the day
after murlibobo was down for a while.

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