[26687] in Hotline Meeting
Broken Computer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joey B. Ferreira)
Thu Feb 2 12:24:44 1995
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 12:24:36 EST
From: "Joey B. Ferreira" <jbf@MIT.EDU>
The SUN machine W20-575-112, in the student centre, seems to be broken. It will
not complete the log out process (although it did destroy my tickets). After
trying to logout, the console displayed the following:
Your session is still running.
10:56
10:56 end_session failed because:
10:56 The file /tmp/session_gate_pid.10118 doesn't exist or is
10:56 not readable.
10:56
10:56 If you are running a .xsession file other than the system
10:56 default, and that file does not invoke the program
10:56 'session_gate', then end_session will not work. You should
10:56 end your session by terminating the last process you started
10:56 in your .xsession file.
10:56
10:56 If you did run session_gate, then the file was somehow
10:56 deleted. Try typing 'end_session -force' (this time only)
10:56 to end your session.
10:56 ************************************************************
('end_session -force' did not help, BTW). As I have logged in and out again on
another machine, I am assuming that SUN is broken, and I don't know how to fix
it...
-Joseph B. Ferreira
jbf@mit.edu
