[3678] in Hotline Meeting
m36-663-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Troxel)
Sat Feb 16 21:47:50 1991
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 91 21:47:28 -0500
From: troxel@caf.MIT.EDU (Don Troxel)
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, lavin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I think the problem I reported with m36-663-1 is software and not hardware,
I logged out by clicking on the "logout" button and then confirming.
I then got the following errors on the display screen
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XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pips) on X server ""
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown of KillClient.
Unable to start xlogin, doing a console login instead
Login: login timed out after 60 seconds.
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This doesn't happen every time, but it has now happened 4 times in a
week or so. Well, maybe it does happen every time, I am usually not
at MIT on Thursdays. I'll try to test the frequency.
Just for easy reference, herea is a copy of my earlier mail
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From troxel Fri Feb 15 11:17:00 1991
To: hotline@athena
Subject: m36-663-1
Cc: lavin@athena
The machine, M36-663-1, located in 36-683, Model VS424AA,
serial number AB922005SNV has had some strange behavior recently.
On three occasions, when I came in in the morning, I found the display
with the following messages:
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Unable to start xlogin, doing console login instead
login: Login timed out after 60 seconds
dm: Unable tostart X
Unable to start xlogin, doing console login instead
login: Login timed out after 60 seconds
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Hitting various keys, etc. had no effect. I rebooted each time.
Machine displays no other abnormal symptoms.
The version is 7.2R (it did do both updates)
In all cases I had logged out the previous day.
In two of the three cases I had logged in via sunpal1 the previous night.
A running of "last" shows nothing untoward.
I don't know that anything needs to be done, I though I would report
this rather strange behavior.
Don Troxel
troxel@caf.mit.edu
36-683
3-2570
