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- From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
- Subject: Re: gray screens
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- In-reply-to: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu's message of 28 Jul 92 00:55:27 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA
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- References: <1992Jul28.005527.23063@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 03:23:33 GMT
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- Here is a very old post of mine with a similar problem:
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- From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
- Subject: "Grey-window-syndrome" and how to cure it.
- Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA.
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- As some of you may have read, my NeXT has been suffering for 5 days of
- "Grey-Window-Syndrome": after a crash no new login window appeared
- just a grey window with an arrow.
- I got lots of advice from helpful people (two of then from NeXT).
- After replacing /NextLibrary/Fonts, /etc/hostconfig, /etc/netinfo, the
- password database, and throwing out the CyrillicGothic.font, I_Comm
- (which I suspected to be responsible for the mess) I discovered this
- morning that the problem was caused by a corrupted keyboard file
- in /NextLibrary/Keyboards ( I had modified it to reassign \ to Ctrl-/,
- using the /NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard application, and apprently
- the NeXT did not like this). When I removed the two suspect keyboard
- files (which I detected by looking for files modified prior to the
- crash) everything returned to "normal".
- The file /usr/adm/messages was less than helpful.
-
- So if you have similar problems check the /NextLibrary for nonexistent
- or corrupted files.
-
- I would like to thank all who have responded with advice, particularly
- Pascal Chesnais, who spent many hours trying to reproduce the
- condition on his machine.
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- Hope it does not happen to you!
-
- Greetings,
- --
- Hardy
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- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine
- e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET
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