[12023] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: XESS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alexp@MIT.EDU)
Mon May 9 14:12:57 1994
From: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 9 May 94 14:12:41 EDT
To: kljones@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Hello,
I have been looking into your bug report about editing Xess plots rebooting
workstations. I will need more information in order to be able to proceed.
First: is the problem reproducible? Does it happen with all plots or only
certain plots? If it is reproducible, can you give me a detailed sequence
of commands in Xess that will cause it so I can see it myself? (If it
doesn't happen with every plot, could you copy one that causes it to my
Public folder (alexp@mit.edu))?
I also want to make sure I have the right Xess version (we have being setting
up the new 3.0 version of Xess, and it has been available for a while now in
the xess3 or xess3.0 lockers); did you get to xess by the usual "add xess;
xess" command (which would give you the current default 2.1 version)?
When you say you "first noticed it last week": do you think this is something
that was not happening before?
Finally: does this happen on certain machines (i.e. in a single cluster) or
on all machines? What about machine type- you mention DEC and IBM; do you
see it on Suns too?
Alex Prengel, Jr.
Academic Computing Services
Software Acquisition Coordinator
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>Subject: decmips 7.6G: XESS
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>System name: m66-080-18
>Type and version: KN01 7.6G
>Display type: PMAX-MFB
>
>What were you trying to do?
> Edit plots with XESS.
>
>What's wrong:
> The hourglass appeared and about 1 minute later, the system rebooted and the >Athena logon screen appeared.
>
>What should have happened:
> no rebooting! Continue with XESS
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> I first noticed this last week. I tried on three different machines (a DEC50>00, IBM Powerstation, and DEC3100). At first the rebooting would happen only >when I opened a certain plot and attempted to edit the data ranges. I decided> to ignore that plot, but it also happens when I attempt to edit other plots.
>
