[24952] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh panics 9.4.17 Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
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Subject: Re: exmh panics 9.4.17 Solaris
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> One possible area to look at is the AFS @sys compatibility code.
> /afs/sipb/project/tcl/bin is a symlink to arch/@sys/bin, and there
> is no arch/sun4x_510, so AFS is falling back to arch/sun4x_59. But
> honestly, the memory corruption could be happening anywhere in the
> exmh execution path.
Jacob made an /afs/sipb/project/tcl/arch/sun4x_510 symlink, and I
rebooted my test machine and tried again. exmh worked the first time,
but after that, the value of the wish symlink was lost and I got the
"Permission denied." error again.
I also saw very strange behavior the first time I logged in as systest
just after a reboot:
* In the console, zwgc complained the host manager wasn't responding
while initializing. (But in the xterm which came up, I could send
a zephyr.)
* The background was black.
* The xterm was unusually large on the screen.
* The window decoration theme was very different from normal.
* The panel was a small, maybe 100-pixel-wide strip at the bottom
left of the screen, with no applets or objects and two little
anchor bars at either end.
* The first time I tried to examine /afs/sipb/project/tcl, I got a
"connection timed out" error.
A second login cleared up these problems.
