wiedeman@orion.cf.uci.edu (Lyle Wiedeman) (08/03/89)
Has anyone experienced this? I have a Sun4 running 4.0 (it has a Sun3 diskless client running 4.0, but this should be irrelevant). Trying to launch sunview, I noticed that as the console window was launched, it would hang and chew up 90% of the cpu (the window itself was never drawn, but the "cmdtool -C" was visible in ps(1)). This was easily reproducible, and did not depend on who logged in to launch sunview, nor how sunview was launched. The cmdtool could be killed, and a new console launched from within sunview, which would also hang. If the hung cmdtool were left running, and another console window was launched, it would succeed, and the rogue could be killed without harming the running console window. The hung console window recovered when an rlogin job which had seized ttyp0 logged off, but the console was awarded ttyp3 . Lyle Wiedeman Distributed Computing Support wiedeman@orion.cf.uci.edu Academic Computing Services wiedeman@UCI.BITNET Univ. Calif. Irvine