steve@MATHS.WARWICK.AC.UK (Steve Rumsby) (01/16/89)
This sounds remarkably familiar! Reported to Sun UK on October 4th according to my list. The call is still open. Our windows only seemed to disappear after they had been idle for a while (15 mins or so, I think). This happened not only to shelltool/cmdtool windows but even to clocktool! Lockscreen suffers from this also (which makes it a little ineffective :-) A "workaround" that seems to "work" is to recompile the offending tools with -Bstatic. You have the sources to these even if you are a binary site. Except that a quick "ls" doesn't reveal the source to lockscreen. Hope this helps, Steve. -- UUCP: ...!ukc!warwick!steve Internet: steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk JANET: steve@uk.ac.warwick.maths PHONE: +44 203 523523 x2657
mack@uunet.uu.net (Dave Mack) (01/21/89)
mukul@hi-csc.UUCP (Mukul Agrawal) writes: >[cmdtool and shelltool windows are mysteriously disappearing.] If you're running newcsh or tcsh, make sure you have "unset autologout" in your .cshrc. Dave Mack
libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes) (01/24/89)
steve@MATHS.WARWICK.AC.UK (Steve Rumsby) writes: >This sounds remarkably familiar! Reported to Sun UK on October 4th >according to my list. The call is still open. Our windows only seemed to >disappear after they had been idle for a while (15 mins or so, I think). I can't believe Sun is not solving this problem for you. They told us way back in July that this was a known problem in 3.5 due to a firmware bug, and shipped us new boards for all our 3/50s. Call hardware support and ask that your cpu board be brought up to current rev. Before upgrade our rev level was 2.3, after 2.7. (The rev level prints out when you first power the system up.) It may help to reference Service Order #195054. (Aren't you glad I take copious notes?) Don Libes libes@cme.nbs.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes
hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (02/01/89)
We get this problem because one of our shells has a default autologout after 15 min idle. You might check that before changing CPU cars.