About 9:00pm some students began to experience inconsistent responses from the Novell server (i.e. accessing the P: drive). Info Systems began investigating the problem about 9:40pm and by 10:40pm it was determined that some type of process was consuming excessive CPU cycles and that reboot would be required to stabilize the ST server.

The ST Novell server was rebooted with some unexplained error messages but the reboot seemed to be successful. There is the possibility that some files are in a corrupted state. If students receive errors while accessing any data on their P: drive indicating a corrupt file exists they should notify the Helpdesk, giving the particulars of their Novell userid, the text of the error message and the name of file and the directory path where it exists on the P: drive.

If corrupt data is found the ST server will need to be taken off-line on Monday, 12/8, to run a repair utility.

If students encounter Novell network file problems before 8:00am Monday, 12/8, and they are convinced that Info Systems should consider bringing a technician to campus to investigate during weekend hours, please call the Info Systems emergency number (from an on-campus phone, x4541).