panisset@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset ) (03/20/91)
Here is a problem I have been having: not critical, but it does diminish
my enjoyment of the machine...
I am using a 4D/50, running 3.3.1. The visuallogin variables is set to ON,
but Pandora (the visual login program) fails to work. When the station is
first booted, it goes through the normal boot sequence, the window manager
starts up, but it then dies with the message "News server killed on signal 15".
The system then drops down to the console. If you login at this point, the
windowing environment will start up fine, but it will terminate when you
log out.
Clearly, running pandora is not crucial to the operation of the system.
Nevertheless, I am puzzled by this behavior. Anyone has any idea what is
happening?
Thanks in advance,
JF Panisset
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UUCP: ...!mcgill-vision!panisset msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar19.225455.21660@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, panisset@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset ) writes: |> Here is a problem I have been having: not critical, but it does diminish |> my enjoyment of the machine... |> |> I am using a 4D/50, running 3.3.1. The visuallogin variables is set to ON, |> but Pandora (the visual login program) fails to work. When the station is |> first booted, it goes through the normal boot sequence, the window manager |> starts up, but it then dies with the message "News server killed on signal 15". This is puzzling because a) The window system doesn't start up until after you have logged in via Pandora (or /bin/login). b) I know of no message that says "News server". The message I'm aware of says "Window server killed by signal 15". What do you mean when you say "the window manager starts up". I suspect what is happening is that Pandora is starting up and then dying for some reason. When Pandora dies I would not be surprised that grcond prints out the message I mentioned above. So the question is why is Pandora dying. Signal 15 indicates that the somehow Pandora is crashing the graphics pipeline causing the kernel to gun it down with the signal. If you look in /usr/adm/SYSLOG you should find some additional messages which say why the pipeline crashed. I suspect either a corrupted Pandora binary or a hardware problem. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "Spirits of genius are always opposed by mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein