[16383] in Athena Bugs
Re: quickstation in a funny state...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Oct 7 13:38:28 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:20:02 -0400
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
To: klmitch@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Kev's message of Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:36:07 EDT
<199810071636.MAA06346@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:36:07 EDT
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
I found a quickstation in a funny state; it had no windowmanager (though
this could have been a user customization failing), but the strangest
thing was the state of bugme: There was a small white window in the lower
left-hand corner of the screen, but no time display. There was an xterm,
so I poked around a bit; I found that the console did exist, and had
messages from the user's login. The most interesting thing I noticed
was that the process pointed to by $XSESSION was defunct. I killed
Xsession itself with no effect. At this point I killed the xterm, and so
gave up and rebooted the station. Unfortunately, I didn't think to catch
the workstation's version before doing so...it's the left one on the 3rd
floor of W20, though, if that's any help.
It sounds like bugme had been suspended.
The lack of time display was because it had been occluded. Since it
isn't running, it doesn't repaint.
The user suspended it, and then logged out later without remembering
to resume it. So their session manager exited, and if bugme were
running it would notice this and terminate the session. But it wasn't
running, so it hung.
If you notice this in the future, you should find the bugme process
and resume it (kill -CONT xxx) and that should cause the Right Thing
to happen.
Thomas
