Help! BSOD in Unix

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:35:50PM -0400, Barry Wiseman wrote:
> SunOS
> filepro 5.0.14
> 
> These people win the cake for most weird problems I'm seeing for the 
> first time in 30 years of filepro.
> 
> Today, they suddenly stopped being able to load *clerk or *report.  I 
> launch the program from the shell, no arguments, it never gets to Enter 
> Filename.  Redraws the screen blank in filepro's background color, and 
> hangs with the cursor at 0,0.  Does not respond to BREAK or Ctrl-\. 
> Only a "kill -9" from another terminal will recover the session.

SunOS has strace, doesn't it?

Cheers,
-- jra
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