[11922] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 7.6Q: ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rptaurie@MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 4 20:29:53 1994
From: rptaurie@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 20:29:46 EDT
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
Cc: "Rich Tauriello" <rptaurie@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [11920]
I wrote (on Tue, 22 Feb 94 13:12:25 EST):
> About 15 minutes after sipb fell off the net (or whatever
>happened), any command I typed in an xterm died with a bus error and
>dumped core, including ls, hostinfo, pwd, rm, znol, and file. The
>first command it happened to was "punt edsc", which hung for a while
>first while I tried to kill it with C-c and C-\. The problem went
>away when sipb came back up. Oddly enough, during this period I
>did bring up an xterm from a twm menu, but I don't think the shell
>(/bin/csh) was starting up successfully.
wdc wrote:
>Your hesiod information reports that you were using
>/afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh at the time. So what probably happened was
>that your xterm could not get the shell it needed and died.
I don't think that explains it; the twm menu entry I used was:
"cshterm" f.exec "export SHELL; SHELL=/bin/csh; xterm &"
and when I try that now, it gives me an xterm running /bin/csh (twm
uses sh to do f.exec).
That also doesn't explain why any binary I tried to invoke would get a
bus error (tcsh's ls-F and cd worked fine). I wasn't really expecting
an explanation, it just seemed like strange behavior.
Rich
