[11623] in Athena Bugs
MacZephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine Preston)
Wed Jan 19 14:09:35 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 14:09:28 EST
From: Catherine Preston <cassie@MIT.EDU>
Hi. I am one of the resnet consultants for Burton Conner and
I have heard that as yet you have not been able to find bugs
in maczephyr. I personally have had a ton of problems with
it, which I will attempt to tell you in as much detail as
possible.
1) The machine freezes after asking maczephyr to znol or show
subscriptions. This means the clock stops running, I cannot
change to another application, I cannot abort the command.
This does not happen every time I try either of these
commands, but with alarming frequency, especially as regards
the znol problem.
2) I get an error message that reports "Error in port %u".
Sometimes that will reboot the machine, sometimes just shut
down maczephyr, sometimes it shuts down maczephyr and tech
notify. But it is always the same message.
3) Also, I have been having trouble with the zwrite windows.
They appear in odd sizes, often completely blank (ie: without
the prompts for name, class, instance, etc). Sometimes,
usually after I have sent 5 or so zwrites, the windows stop
appearing. When I go to the windows menu, it shows a check
next to the zwrite window name, but there is still no window.
The only way to get windows back that I have found has been to
shut down and restart maczephyr.
That's all I have found so far. I'll let you know if I see
any more. Thanks.
-Cat Preston
RCC, Burton Conner 332C
x5-8307
