[comp.sys.apollo] Out of pads?

Jinfu@cup.portal.com (07/05/88)

I am having this problem for several weeks and still unable to find
the cause.

What happen is every once a while (about two to three weeks), one of
the nodes (DN3000 or 4000) wouldn't be able to create a window pad after
login. The DM message window shows a message like 'Cursor is not
in proper place' (or something like that) after login with no window
pad created. If I use the DM command cp /com/sh, the error message from
the DM window would say 'Unable to create new pad'. The only cure I
have right now is to reboot the node.

This keeps happen to EVERY node at the network for almost the same
period of time. Seems like the display manager running out of some
kind of resource. I tightened acls a while ago (before the problem
occured). It could be some files/directories don't have enough acls,
especially the `node_data. However, I already changed acls in that
directory and make it wide open (except startup_xxx files). Anyone
has any idea about this?

Jinfu Chen
Motorola, Inc.
Internet: Jinfu@cup.portal.com
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