D. Allen [CGL]) (09/05/90)
uerf version 3.1-003 (113)
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----- EVENT INFORMATION -----
EVENT CLASS OPERATIONAL EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 250. ASCII MSG
SEQUENCE NUMBER 49.
OPERATING SYSTEM ULTRIX 32
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Tue Sep 4 18:12:37 1990 EDT
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM watscrooge
SYSTEM ID x08000000
SYSTYPE REG. x01010000
FIRMWARE REV = 1.
PROCESSOR TYPE KA630
MESSAGE
write_ID: timeout trying to write to
_VIPER
If you run your MVII/GPX with the MIT X11R4 server and don't disable the
console tty, this may happen to you some time if you run xdvi, especially
if you page quickly and/or use the magnifier. Your X server will hang.
If you kill the getty running on the console, so that it restarts and
prints the login banner on your screen again, the X server will unfreeze
and afterward you'll see the above errors in the "uerf" database. If you
disable the console tty (in /etc/ttys), xdvi will not hang.
This is a point of information for those who like to leave the console
enabled in /etc/ttys even when running an X server. I've not had this
problem on B&W hardware.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
[129.97.128.64] Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada