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Subject: Re: ASUS MB panics
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On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> As John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 
> > basicly it seems that the call to ttyclose at the end of spec_close
> > manages to overrun the stack... so upon return of spec_close it tries to
> > "return" to the previous function.. but that return value was overwriten
> > and so it jumps to the null pointer...
> 
> A quick glance over the sources yields the clist stuff there as the
> most likely culprit.  Maybe Bruce has some more suggestions...

One note, this blows up under DOS too -- screen blacks out after
'Starting MS-DOS' appears, so I'm suspecting a faulty MB. I'll
return it Monday.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major