System panic when changing CDE backdrops

From: Natalia Salzberg <natalia_at_stn-atlas.com.au>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:57:07 +1100

Dear all,

Everytime someone wants to change the CDE backdrop in one of
our alphas (running DU 4.0b) it crashes completely giving the
message below in /var/adm/messages - see output from uerf at
the end of the mail:

panic (cpu 0): Machine check - Hardware error

Has anyone seen this before? If so, do you know how to avoid it
save not changing the backdrop?

Thanks,

natalia

output from uerf:


----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 100. CPU EXCEPTION
SEQUENCE NUMBER 1.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jan 19 09:48:53 1998
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM zelma
SYSTEM ID x0006000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

UNIT CLASS CPU

********************************* ENTRY 46. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 100. CPU EXCEPTION
SEQUENCE NUMBER 2.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jan 19 09:48:53 1998
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM zelma
SYSTEM ID x0006000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

UNIT CLASS CPU

********************************* ENTRY 47. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 302. PANIC
SEQUENCE NUMBER 3.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Jan 19 09:48:53 1998
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM zelma
SYSTEM ID x0006000D CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000
MESSAGE panic (cpu 0): Machine check -
                                         _Hardware error

-- 
Natalia Salzberg
STN Atlas (Australia):    natalia_at_stn-atlas.com.au
UTS Programmer's Society: natalia_at_progsoc.uts.edu.au
Received on Mon Jan 19 1998 - 00:53:38 NZDT

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