[16166] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.2.9: athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Fri Aug 14 21:05:20 1998
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 21:05:16 EDT
System name: x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.2.9 (with mkserv)
Display type: afb
What were you trying to do?
log in
What's wrong:
1) My initial xterm did not appear
2) 'from' hung
3) logout did not work
1) My initial xterm did not appear; as my initial emacs did, I was
able to poke about. It was in the process table, but it hadn't
been displayed yet. I've had similiar problems before, with starting
xterms from my windowmanager; they might show up after several
minutes, but that was not guaranteed...but if they were started from
a shell prompt, they'd show up immediately.
2) My .startup.X hung trying to do 'from -t -n'; I was able to
successfully run 'from -t' and 'from -t -n' from the prompt, however.
The fact that this was hung resulted in my initial exmh not appearing
(which is what I first observed; it was only after examining the
process table that I realized what was happening); this also, of
course, seems to have resulted in an Xsession hang, possibly related
to complaint 3.
3) Initially, I tried to execute logout using M-x shell-command in
emacs; when nothing happened, I started a shell and tried again. Of
course, the result was a "no such process" message, as session_gate
presumably either did not get started or was properly killed by my
first 'logout' attempt. I then attempted to kill Xsession directly
(it only just occurred to me that I should have also kill'd 'from');
initially, I just issued "kill <procID>". When that did nothing, I
escalated, first issuing -TERM, then -HUP, then -SEGV; I finally
ended up doing a kill -9, which logged me off immediately.
It was mildly amusing, after all of this, when Xlogin started up...
followed by exmh :) I was unable to reproduce the problem on
subsequent login attempts.
What should have happened:
1) The xterm problem should not be occurring; next time I
see this behavior from my windowmanager, I'll try to strace it...
2) 'from' should not have hung.
3) 'logout' should have logged me out :) (Maybe we need a
"logmeout-harder" alias? ;)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
ya right.
