[16192] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.9: Stop-A
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Aug 20 17:19:50 1998
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:19:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9808202102.AA21506@MIT.MIT.EDU>
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Mike Barker wrote:
> I've confirmed that xrefresh does not work correctly on the Ultras.
> However, logging out clears the screen, so I don't see this is a major problem.
Yes, I know logging out clears the screen. Logging out kills the
X server. It's my opinion that there should be a way to refresh
the screen that does not involve killing the X server.
I did not really expect Athena to be able to fix this problem.
However, I would appreciate it if you pass it upstream to Sun,
so that they are notified about the issue, and so that they can
declare something about whether or not they will fix it.
If "bugs" is the wrong place for email about bugs in Solaris,
I'd appreciate knowing what the proper address is. (I had
assumed, perhaps erroneously, that you would forward this bug
report to Sun once you determined that it was outside of Athena's
realm of responsibility.)
Thank you,
Jacob Morzinski
> At 12:08 AM 8/20/98 -0400, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
> :)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?
> :) Change a keyboard on a Sun Ultra. (Or demonstrate how to
> :) use Stop-A to reboot a machine, and then back out and
> :) type "go" to resume.)
> :)
> :)What's wrong:
> :) The monitor is left with "Type "go" to continue", etc,
> :) displaying on _top_ of the windows managed by Xsun.
> :) xrefresh turns the text from white to cyan, but leaves it
> :) there.
> :)
> :)What should have happened:
> :) There should be _some_ way to clean the screen back up,
> :) short of killing the X server.
> :)
> :)Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> :) Jhawk poked at the machine a lot, with afbconfig and
> :) other fun things. He couldn't find a way to fix the
> :) problem.
> :)
