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cbarry@2xtreme.net (Christopher R. Barry) wrote:
:  Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com> writes:
:  
:  > A background stream is something where output goes when a process
:  > has no visible output stream. When the process wants to type out
:  > (for example because of an unhandled error) on this background
:  > stream you get a notification.
:  
:  Okay, I searched around for type out related documentation read about
:  the Function-T commands for controlling type out, but the notification
:  still pops up. However, this doesn't sound like something too serious
:  which should stop the X-Server from working. The "Using the X Server"
:  doc is very brief. Perhaps I just am not using it right instead of
:  this notification being the cause of failure.

I'm not too familiar with X on a LispM (I've got Genera 5.something on
my 3640, and never have gotten the networking world functional).
However, I can intuit some bits from general knowledge:

"bzero" is a C function that zeroes a block of memory.  I doubt
seriously that the X server only calls it in the context of printing
out error messages - most likely, that's just the first place it's
trying to invoke it, and failing.  The other symptoms you describe
would imply that the server is completely going away at about the same
time as this error is reported.  This is consistent with using a
C-language X server (probably a port of the generic server from MIT),
without all of the appropriate run-time support environment
(BSD-compatible, if it matters).

HTH.

	Dworkin