[Imc-tech] Fwd: problems with Sergei and MoJo

[Clint Popetz]

I hadn't heard that Sergei was crashing too.  The "lock up and
reboot automatically" of Mojo is the typical symptom of its disease,
which we presume to be heat related.  

As far as one lock up freezing the other computer, perhaps we should
not share drives between them, but rather have each use Dewey.  That
would be my preference.

				-Clint

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Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 10:56:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sehvilla Mann <smann at stu.parkland.cc.il.us>
Subject: problems with Sergei and MoJo
To: cpopetz at cpopetz.com


Hi Clint, 

  Sascha suggested I email you about some problems I had last night with Mother 
Jones and Sergei. I had loaded a 1 1/2 hour long audio piece into the computer 
using SoundForge. When I tried to save my piece, the computer was acting very 
strangely. It gave me the hourglass "busy" icon for about three minutes before 
I went and asked Sascha if he knew what was going on. The computer wouldn't let 
me do anything in Soundforge, though it would let me do other things in the 
computer. As I remember, Sascha closed some programs and determined that my 
piece was being saved, albeit very slowly.
  When it finally did save, I began to edit my piece. I didn't have any 
problems using Soundforge for that. But then I tried to save my changes and it 
started to do the super-slow-save thing again. I pressed Control-Alt-Delete 
once and checked to see if the program was running (the way Sascha had). It was 
running, so I sat around and waited for it to finish. Then, without warning, 
the whole computer shut down and rebooted! Sascha had left by then, and I had 
no idea what was going on. When the computer was back on, I searched the E 
drive for my file and it wasn't there. 
  My dad (a system administrator) came over to pick me up and tried to figure 
out what was wrong with the computer. He ended up deciding that the problem was 
with Sergei. I can't remember his exact words but I think what he said was that 
the drive I was using was networked, and Sergei was having problems, so when 
Sergei crashed that's why I couldn't get my file back. My dad and I went over 
and rebooted Sergei. As soon as it was up, my file came back to MoJo. Then 
Sergei crashed again within a minute and my file was again lost. 
  This morning as I was working on this computer, Sarah K was having problems 
with Sergei crashing. She mentioned that she wasn't running anything more than 
pine and Internet Explorer.
  I'm not sure what's wrong with the computers but Sascha said that y'all were 
hoping people would let you know if we had problems with them.
  
  Thanks. 

  Sehvilla
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