[1073] in Release_Engineering
IBM RT megapel server crashes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu May 18 23:40:07 1989
Date: Thu, 18 May 89 23:39:52 EDT
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I am currently running on my workstation the release version of the
Xibm X server. Last night, I was able to reliably crash the X server
using three differeing programs, all of which produced markedly
different core dumps.
These three core files can be found in /mit/bitbucket/pit-cores. They
are core.Xibm.tetris (caused by running /mit/bjaspan/rtbin/tetris),
core.Xibm.xfig (caused by running /usr/sipb/rtbin/xfig), and
core.Xibm.zip (caused by running zip out of the andrew locker and
playing with the symbols stuff -- trying to paste a symbol into the
document from the flow chart symbols is what caused the first crash).
If it is at all possible, these core files should be investigated
before the end of the summer to see if fixes can be found for release
in the end-of-summer release.
If you want the core files, make sure you copy them out of bitbucket
before they magically disappear.
jik
