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Repeated X errors

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From: Liam Healy
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 00:00
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As part of my effort to maximize desk space, I am trying to
consolidate onto one desktop computing device: an X terminal;
I am trying to use our XL1200 via an NCD X terminal.
For the most part, this works.  I have run into a problem, however.
Every once in a while, both the XL console and the window on the X
term go crazy with X errors:

[15:11:15 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous GCONTEXT-ERROR in request 10629 (last request was 10643)  Code 60.0 [FreeGC] ID #x4000AAA
]
[15:11:15 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous PIXMAP-ERROR in request 10630 (last request was 10643)  Code 54.0 [FreePixmap] ID #x4000A
A9]
[15:11:24 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous ALLOC-ERROR in request 11270 (last request was 11283)  Code 53.0 [CreatePixmap]]
[15:11:24 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous DRAWABLE-ERROR in request 11271 (last request was 11283)  Code 62.0 [CopyArea] ID #x4000A
BB]
[15:11:24 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous DRAWABLE-ERROR in request 11272 (last request was 11283)  Code 53.0 [CreatePixmap] ID #x4
000ABB]
[15:11:24 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous DRAWABLE-ERROR in request 11273 (last request was 11283)  Code 55.0 [CreateGC] ID #x4000A
BC]
[15:11:24 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous DRAWABLE-ERROR in request 11274 (last request was 11283)  Code 72.0 [PutImage] ID #x4000A
BC]
[15:11:24 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous PIXMAP-ERROR in request 11275 (last request was 11283)  Code 56.0 [ChangeGC] ID #x4000ABC
]
[15:11:24 X Error in process X Input XACT:0.0 0 (Genera on Lie):
          Asynchronous DRAWABLE-ERROR in request 11276 (last request was 11283)  Code 70.0 [PolyFillRectangle] I
D #x4000ABB]

and on and on.

[XACT is the X terminal, LIE is the XL]

The same messages show up on both windows.  The X term will show a
pop-up with a bunch of messages, then "press any key to continue".  If
I do so, the popup goes away, and the console goes into the cold load
steam with an error in the X client process.  If I hit either Abort or
Resume (the only two options), it resumes everything normally, but
then a new flurry of errors starts on the X term.  And around and
around it goes.  The only way I've found to get out of this is to
Reset Network.  This isn't acceptable, however, as I would like to
shut off the console eventually.

What causes this behavior?  What is the cure?  I know for a while
Symbolics was selling a network-only XL1200 with no console (XL1201?),
so it must be possible to do everything via the X term, but how?

Any help is appreciated.

-- 
Liam Healy
Liam.Healy@nrl.navy.mil
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Subject: Repeated X errors
Date: 1996/02/02
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