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Article #12251Re: X crashing at irregular occasions on SUN 3's
From: Arturo Perez Ext.
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 00:18
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 00:18
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> schultz@mmm.serc.mmm.com (John C Schultz): > >>We have been suffering an intermmitent problem with diskless SUN 3's >>crashing after coming out of xlock under X11R2 (SunOS 3.5). >>... >>the display will go black and no keyboard or mouse entry is allowed. Even >>L1-A does nothing. Powering off and back on is the only cure.... > It turns out that there's a very (!) poor interaction between screenblank and X. Screenblank is started up by /etc/rc.local. I don't know what the exact story is but the symptoms sound very similar to yours: Machine sits around (bored) for a while (sometimes not) Machine's screen blanks out and nothing brings it back Reboot machine. Actually, one thing that does bring it back is rlogin'ing in to the machine as root and doing reset < /dev/console >& /dev/console (assuming csh syntax). However, if you kill screenblank the problem goes away; at least it does here! Arturo Perez ComputerVision, a division of Prime primerd!cvbnet!aperez
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: aperez@cvbnet2.UUCP (Arturo Perez Ext.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: X crashing at irregular occasions on SUN 3's Keywords: Software Message-ID: <1061@cvbnet2.UUCP> Date: 26 Apr 89 00:18:20 GMT References: <6096@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 31 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 3 Apr 89 23:37:38 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 249, message 6 of 20