[15300] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.1.7: xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett David Rosen)
Mon Jul 28 12:18:06 1997
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:18:03 EDT
From: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>
System name: cogsworth
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.1.7 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
This actually happenned on t-lane, a sparc classic running 8.1.7
I was able to reproduce the xterms dying on startup problem.
What's wrong:
xterms would startup and then disappear.
I reproduced this by logging into a PUBLIC=true machine once, logging
out and then logging back in quickly. I was able to debug the problem
somewhat and it turned out that it was caused by me not having entries
in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. (/etc/passwd was probably causing this
problem, but not having an entry in shadow could possibly cause other
problems) .
What should have happened:
xterm should have worked and xlogin should have been able to
deal with removing me from /etc/passwd on logout and adding me back in
next time I logged in.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
xdm/xlogin source code.
