[2578] in Release_Engineering
Re: [jtkohl@MIT.EDU: vax 7.2R: xlogin]
vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 12 10:41:41 1991
> When I returned from lunch, I noticed that the time in the
> blanked out "hit any key" display was not changing. It was stuck at
> 12:50:xx.
> I pressed a key, the login banner came up. I then let it go
> idle again. When I did so, when it blacked out a new time (the current
> time) was put in the message. However, this time again did not
> increment on the idle screen.
I saw this happen too, while I was developing the xlogin
screensaver/banner stuff. I was unable to reproduce it reliably as
well. It was certainly weird, though, and Craig saw it too.
Anyway, I never did find the problem, though I suspect it is the clock
widget's fault and not xlogin's. There is probably some timerid that is
getting cleared when it should not be or not set when it should be or
something. I gave up looking for it becausee the problem seemed to go
away after I compiled once...
It's also possible that there is a bad pointer somewhere destroying the
clock's timerid. I don't know...
