[14583] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.0F: xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Aug 22 03:10:52 1996
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 03:10:48 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-71
Type and version: IP22 8.0F
Display type: NG1
What were you trying to do?
Check mail at an Athena SGI machine without logging in.
(F4, from the xlogin screen.)
What's wrong:
xlogin checked mail successfully. However, it did not
handle the "abort" button properly. Pushing "abort" dropped
me into the SGI's custom grey-and-blue graphical login screen.
(Being curious, I tried to login at that screen, instead of
hitting the obscure Control_L-Shift_L-F12-KP_Divide
keystroke. Apparently the SGI doesn't like me; the machine
froze up. This isn't really the bug though; the bug is
leaving the machine in a state which most users don't know
how to get out of.)
What should have happened:
The machine should have returned to the xlogin screen after
I aborted the login session.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The xlogin source? (Well, that's probably not documentation.)
