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- From: jern@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Hanging X11R4 server under AIX3.2.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.170909.5107@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 17:09:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.181555.25881@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> <1992Aug20.085303.23888@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Aug20.121336.10998@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Reply-To: jern@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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- In article <1992Aug20.121336.10998@email.tuwien.ac.at>, jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug20.085303.23888@fwi.uva.nl>, wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:
- |> |> tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) writes:
- |> |>
- |> |> # I am running AIX3.2.1 on more RS6000's (550's and 220's). In some cases
- |> |> #(not quite reproducible), when the Xserver exits, the console keeps hanging.
- |> |> #That means, that the Xserver process really exits, but the background with
- |> |> #traces of some of the windows stays on the screen, and the console + keyboard
- |> |> #are dead. The only help I know is reboot :(
- |>
- |> This problem is known since AIX 3.1.3 and it's nice to see some workarounds
- |> here, but the real question is, when will IBM will fix it ...
- |>
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- I hate to reboot - try logging as root from another terminal & killing the
- offending process. Works for me.
-
- bob
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