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From: dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com (Dwight E. Cass)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Ouch...The System Reboots...
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Date: 27 Jul 92 17:41:46 GMT
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Does the following happen on your system?

	1. Create the /var/games directory (so rogue has a place to
	   put its scores)
	2. Start the distributed copy of rogue (do NOT recompile)
	3. Quit immediately - creating a score record
	4. Restart rogue and this time, allow yourself to be killed
	   by a monster - causing a score record to change

	Does your system reboot?  Mine does - no panic, no messages,
no crash dump, just a reboot.

If you rebuild rogue - that version will core dump with either a
segmentation violation or memory fault (see my earlier post about bugs
in stdio) - but the distributed program (which is actually just a link
to /usr/games/dm) cause the system to reboot.

Anyone got any ideas - anyone got an Emulator to look at this one?
/dec

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