[comp.sys.sun] Sunview has lost its mind

jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (02/02/90)

First,  I would get the big eeprom-based syslog-like message while I was
in sunview.  Needless to say, this is *very* irritating.  I even had a
console window up, and the message was printed there as well.  (It was a
stock "machine su: id on /dev/whatever" message saying that I had just
gone to root.)

Then, I started getting this message occasionally, even if I hadn't gone
to root in hours.

Painful.   Any suggestions?

J. Eric Townsend
University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics
jet@karazm.math.uh.edu
Skate UNIX(tm).

jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (02/08/90)

Found what caused out the problem.

Don't run sunview in your .login with the idea of "if I'm not on the
console, it'll just error out".  Well, it will.  But it will also screw up
some sort of internal mumbo-jumbo that makes all further console messages
get printed by the eeprom.  Oh well.

This is kind of like the sunview bug where sunview hangs if there are nfs
problems.  Who knows why, just don't trigger the problem. :-)

J. Eric Townsend
University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120
jet@karazm.math.uh.edu
Skate UNIX(tm).