🚀 go-pugleaf

Problem: you're sitting at a NeXT on a network, working  
away.  Suddenly music starts playing and the system has a  
panic.  This happens not once but many times.  Sometimes  
locking up the system entirely so that even the power key  
is out of commission.  This happens VERY often, like every  
ten minutes or so.
Further info:  there are a dozen nexts out there.  Several  
people are working on them.  When you switch box, it  
crashes on you again.  Nobody else's box crashes.  Well  
actually, one other person has a similar crash, once, but  
most are entirely unaffected. ps -aux shows only root and  
the user's processes running.

This raises several possibilities, some paranoid, some more  
benign.
(1) somebody is persecuting a particular user and causing  
her system to crash, perhaps by rlogging in and causing a  
system crash (but note that public sound and window server  
preferences are switched off) and nobody else seems to be  
logged in to these machines.
(2) somebody is rlogging in and doing something that causes  
a system crash without realizing that they're doing this.   
But chances that they'd always log into a box used by the  
same person and never other people seem pretty low.
(3) there's a bug somewhere in the OS or the user's  
filesystem is somehow corrupted.  The only things running  
are edit and terminal.  Also mail and VirtSpace, I guess.

Any ideas?
--
-
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)