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- From: neal@grover.stat.washington.edu (Phil Neal Inc.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: tty locks up in X11 windows
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:18:31 GMT
- Organization: U. Washington Dept. of Statistics
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- Dear sys admin types,
-
- I'm running sunos v 4.1.1 on a sparc 2 machine.
-
- Every once in a while I get tty's locking up
- when I try to open a new xterm. I get the xterm
- window, but I can't do anything in it. It just
- sits there.
-
- WHen I do a "who" command, I seem to have this extra
- ttyp logged in. But when I do a ps -x, there isn't any
- process affiliated with it and there certainly isn't any
- window. There doesn't even seem to be a zombie.
-
- Usually I can get around it by guesstimating
- which ttyp is the offending critter and going
- into /dev and renaming it to xxxttyp or some such.
-
- Then I can open new windows. However, now I have
- all these renamed ttyps laying around doing nothing.
-
- And I still don't know what caused them to lock up
- in the first place.
-
- Oh, has anybody figured out a way to kill a zombie yet ?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Phil Neal
-
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- Phil Neal, Systems Programmer, Statistics Department GN-22
- University of Washington, Seattle, Wa. 98195 USA | 206-685-1627
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