magical mystery process death

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From: Tobias James Hagge
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 22:36

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   Was wondering if maybe somebody could help me with this one:
     Something somewhere is screwed up with my NeXTStation Mono ('040,
not turbo).  It seems to run normally, except that running certain
processes causes the system to hang.  When one of these processes is
run, it hangs, and sometimes "takes the machine with it", that is, any
new process that gets started will hang also.  Other times I can just
switch to another application and ignore the one that hung.  I am
running NextStep version 2.1.  I know that NetHack v3.0j, MontserScope
and Stuart will cause these problems to occur.  Interestingly, Terminal
will run without causing a hang.  Also, any sort of Open panel seems to
cause a hang.
     I never have problems like this in single user mode.  I know that
nethack will run, and haven't hung the machine while in single user
mode.  Does anybody have any clue as to what's going on?  Any help would
be appreciated greatly as just about half of the programs I run seem to
crash.

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