NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/apollo/3931

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From: [e-mail] (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: Problems with X11 and SR10.4
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:27:41 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John R Marley) writes:
>The other problem may not be an Apollo problem, but I'll mention it anyway.
>When we run Splus on a 425t, we can hang the system by rapidly
>exposing/covering parts of Splus's X output window.  This works using either
>Xapollo or Xdomain.  When I say "hang", I mean the cursor and keyboard freeze
>and the flashing LED that indicates cpu activity freezes.  Nothing for it but
>to reboot.  We can reproduce this on a 425t.  We couldn't do it on a 425e, or a
>5500.  It appears to be getting confused trying to refresh a window while
>already refreshing.  This may be a bug in Splus, since I couldn't reproduce the
>problem with another package running.

My DN2500 would "hang" exactly as you describe, running SR10.4 and
Xapollo. The solution seemed to be rebuild all /dev, shutdown and
reboot. You might want to delete things like /dev/pty* and
/dev/tty[pqrs]? to make sure they get rebuilt. This seems to have cured
my system, including other problems where it couldn't spawn shells
properly, but this latter problem has now returned after a month, so
I imagine the "hangs" will be back too before Christmas.
--
What are the chances that any HP computer system will ever "work" properly?
... and Slim just left town. -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry