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Sudden WDSF Mac Client 'Weirdness'

1994-03-15 16:49:37
Subject: Sudden WDSF Mac Client 'Weirdness'
From: "Michael W. Kearney" <MICHAEL AT PENNDRLS.UPENN DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:49:37 EST
Over the last month, we have been beset by a rash of difficulties with
the WDSF Mac Client, which I can only characterize at this point as
'abends', as I'm not yet conversant with Mac-speak. The error messages are
coming from the Mac OpSys, not from WDSF and have varied forms:

"'WDSF' Bus error 1 (or 3)", "Bad F-line instruction", "'WDSF' Illegal
 Instruction."

These problems have occurred suddenly, and on more than one system. Currently,
they have cropped up on about 10% of our Mac clients.
Furthermore, they are sometimes corrected by a reinstall (sometimes not),
and sometimes seem to disappear for no apparent reason. At this point, there
doesn't seem to be a common thread which characterizes these failures. Before
I embark on the potentially long journey to sort all this out, I thought I'd
ask if anyone has seen this problem with the WDSF client before, and
if they have any insight as to where I should be looking for the cause.

Thanks in advance.

Michael Kearney
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