[16332] in Athena Bugs

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Re: sgi 8.2.9: xlogin

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Sep 16 18:39:17 1998

Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:39:13 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16329] in Athena Bugs"

> Yes, I believe we've seen this problem before, and have also seen it
> at logout time.  I think what's going on is that the hacked SGI xdm is
> misbehaving some of the time; alternatively, we could be giving it the
> wrong stimuli some of the time.

Does /var/X11/xdm/xdm-errors have anything interesting in it when this
happens?  xdm writes diagnostics there, though I believe xdm overwrites
it each time it starts, so you might need to do a remote login while
it's hung.

Bob

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