[6771] in SIPB bug reports
xmcd and vold problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy C Daniel)
Sun Mar 15 16:49:06 1998
From: Jeremy C Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 16:48:55 EST
this comes from [15237] in oworkstations...
>>Every so often, I start running xmcd, the CD-player program for the Sun.
>>On certain machines, instead of getting a nice display, I only get a
>>incomplete one (only solid colors, no buttons). The program does not
>>finish loading. To make things more annoying, one can only kill it from
>>the keyboard, by employing a "kill -KILL" statement. Incidentally, I am getting the
>>following error:
>> 0NFS server for volume management (/vol) not responding still trying
>>(maybe with out the O at the beginning, dunno.
>>Any suggestions?
> add consult
> voldstart
I was thinking, if this is something that happens repeatedly we
might want to write a wrapper script around xmcd to make sure
vold is running, or to tell the user what to do if things fail to
work in this manner
Jer
