Problem Solving and Support
Resetting Your SPARCbook
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SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
Some messages may indicate that the system has run out of resources
and require attention. For example, a program may fail to start or may
print a message such as:
out of swap space
or
out of memory
or
FS full on /dev/c0t0d0s6
: cannot write %xyx
As a rule you should exit the offending program in this. It may be
prudent to reboot the operating system after such an event because
applications and the operating system do not always recover from
resource failures gracefully.
If you run out of disk space you must either move files to a different
filesystem, or to a networked server, or you must remove them.
Resetting Your SPARCbook
If the operating system has panicked, or the keyboard appears to have
locked up and all other remedies have failed, you may have to reset the
SPARCbook.
A reset should only be used as a last resort because the operating system
will have open files and unflushed buffers which will have to be
repaired when the system is rebooted.
To reset the system press the
Pause-R
.
After a reset, your SPARCbook performs a complete Solaris reboot and
run the automatic filesystem check program (
fsck
). After completing
the
fsck,
the system either automatically reboots, or may complete a
single user start-up sequence and issue the
#
prompt.
In the latter case type
Ctrl-D
to continue the normal boot sequence.
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