[comp.windows.open-look] Vanishing clients in xnews server

mason@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Mason) (02/05/91)

I am posting this for someone, however he does read
comp.windows.open-look newsgroup.

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There seems to be a problem with our X/NeWS server. Clients like
cmdtools and xterms disappear sometimes when they are closed. The
problem is not repeatable, i.e. I don't know when it will disappear.
It happens under both vtwm and olwm window managers, so I suppose it's
the problem of the server. Even though the clients disappear, the
processes are still present in the process table. We are running SunOS
4.1 with OpenWindow 2.0 on 4/110 & 4/60.

Does anybody have the same problem? Any suggestions to the cause? 

Thanks in advance.

Delman Lee.
Internet: delman@sun.engineering.oxford.ac.uk
Dept. of Engineering Science, 
Oxford, U.K..

dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan Messinger) (02/06/91)

In article <1207@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>, mason@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Mason)
writes:
 
|> There seems to be a problem with our X/NeWS server. Clients like
|> cmdtools and xterms disappear sometimes when they are closed. The
|> problem is not repeatable, i.e. I don't know when it will disappear.
|> It happens under both vtwm and olwm window managers, so I suppose it's
|> the problem of the server.

I see the same thing frequently.  I thought it was because I was using the
stock twm off the X11r4 tapes, but apparently not.  I am using an IPC running
OS 4.1 and OW 2.0.  While it usually happens when I close an application,
a couple of times it has happened with I opened an application.

Dan Messinger
dan@scooter.rosemount.com

bochner@flare.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner) (02/08/91)

In article <9672@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>, dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan
Messinger) writes:
 > In article <1207@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>, mason@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Mason)
 > writes:
 > |> There seems to be a problem with our X/NeWS server. Clients like
 > |> cmdtools and xterms disappear sometimes when they are closed.
 > I see the same thing frequently.  I thought it was because I was using the
 > stock twm off the X11r4 tapes, but apparently not.  I am using an IPC
running
 > OS 4.1 and OW 2.0.

This used to happen to me frequently when I used the twm that originally came
with X11R4. Then someone fetched a newer twm (version 4.1?) from MIT, and the
problem has largely vanished. So I recommend looking for a newer version
of twm.

Harry Bochner
bochner@das.harvard.edu