[12038] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.6G: xess
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard D. Hamlin)
Wed May 11 20:09:51 1994
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Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 20:10:02 -0400
From: "Richard D. Hamlin" <rdhamlin@solar-energy.mit.edu>
Ok. I just tried to trigger the bug again, and I was able to with in
about a minute. (I beleive that it took longer the first two times
the bug appeared---perhaps about 10 minutes, because I remember that I
had entered enough data that I was disgruntled by the fact that it
crashed, but not quite long enough for me to save my work.)
Here is a transcript of the session:
milanese:~<1>% xess&
[1] 2789
milanese:~<2>% f | wc -l
32
[1] + Done xess
milanese:~<3>% jobs
milanese:~<4>% ps aux | grep xess
rdhamlin 2797 0.0 0.3 360 100 pf I 0:00 csh -f /mit/xess/decmipsbin/x
rdhamlin 2798 0.0 6.3 3092 2104 pf S 0:08 /mit/xess/.decmipsbin/xess
rdhamlin 2900 0.0 0.1 40 32 pf S 0:00 grep xess
This is what seems weird to me: before the xess window even appeared
on my screen, I got the "Done" line on my xterm. The xess window
appeared shortly after I typed "jobs". I set the Num-lock entered
random numbers as well as some labels and I used the arrow keys to
move around. Soon xess froze up---exactly the same symtoms I
described before. I am not sure what key I typed before the happened.
I noticed it while I was typing a arrow key, but I think it actually
froze a few key stokes before. I am wondering if there is something
stange about my keyboard mapping that is sending a character that xess
does not like when I hit the key by accident. The "ps aux" above was
done after xess froze up.
I hope this helps. If you need me to help isolate the key that triggered
the problem, let me know.
-Richard Hamlin
