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- From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: X11R4 hoses SS10
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 16:53:01 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
- Lines: 51
- Message-ID: <lgqr2dINN4ak@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
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- If someone is foolish enough to start an X11R4 server on our SS10
- running 4.1.3, the machine hangs. Completely. L1-A will not recover;
- a power cycle is required. I say foolish only because X11R4 is known
- to not work with the cgsix0 framebuffer and because X11R5 is installed
- on the machine, works fine, and she should be using that anyway. But
- the real question is, what causes the machine to hang so badly?
-
- When an unsolicited SS10 patch (100743_01) arrived from Sun in the
- mail (it must really have been important to send this to someone
- without a support contract), I figured this might solve the
- problem. But no luck. It still hangs.
-
- Here's the tail of what trace(1) manages to print before it hangs.
- The wait4() looks suspicious. There's no fork() in the trace.
-
- cascade% trace /lusr/bin/X11/X
-
- [ ... ]
-
- open ("/lusr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13.sn".., 0, 0666) = 10
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- brk (0xd6038) = 0
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "N_X\0RESOLUTION_Y\0SPACING\0C\0AVERA".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 272
- close (10) = 0
- wait4 (0, 0, 0, 0) = -1 ECHILD (No children)
- open ("/lusr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.".., 0, 0666) = 10
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- brk (0xd9038) = 0
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 1024
- read (10, "".., 1024) = 292
- close (10) = 0
- wait4 (0, 0, 0, 0) = -1 ECHILD (No children)
-