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- From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: Xterm dies with 0.98pl4
- Message-ID: <ins217t.721867060@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Nov13.102025.22518@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <1992Nov15.151022.25127@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:37:40 GMT
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- chad@eng.umd.edu (R Michael McMahon) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov13.102025.22518@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, ckub11@zx1.Darkcrystal.Cyberspace (Marc Gutschner) writes:
- >>
- >>Hi,
- >>
- >>I encounter a strange problem with 0.98pl4 and Xfree86 1.0 and 1.1.
- >>Depending on the phase of the moon, the wall clock and some flies
- >>crossing through the room, my 1st Xterm simply dies on keyboard input.
- >>If I start another one from the twm-menu, everything will be fine.
- >>This appears to be a very subtle problem to me.
- >>
- >>As I mentioned this won't happen everytime but you never know when it will
- >>happen :-(((
- >>Maybe this is connected to the changes in the maximum number of open
- >>file-descriptors ? Would it be sufficient to get Xterm-Sources and simply
- >>recompile ? Any help appreciated.
- >>
- >>
-
- >I too have seen Xterms mysteriously die upon keyboard input. I first
- >noticed this under 0.98pl4, but thought it was a user error (like
- >me hitting CTRL-D by mistake). I'm running on a 486-50, 16M, and
- >Adaptec 1542 in case there is some hardware pattern here, since there
- >doesn't appear to be anything else in common: I can't even duplicate
- >the problem on demand to track it.
-
- Yep, happened to me one day...two of them disappeared, so I opened
- another...It disappeared after a minute or two..
-
- ???
-
- It hasn't happened again...
- (386-25 8-( 8M, no SCSI compiled in, TCP/IP in but doing very little 8-)
-
- Cos !
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