Help! BSOD in Unix

Barry Wiseman bwiseman at optonline.net
Wed May 14 14:21:53 PDT 2008


Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 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?
> 

#strace rclerk
ERROR: unable to open /dev/log
#

They don't give me root.  :-(


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