[18773] in Athena Bugs
Intermittent xss failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Mon Feb 12 18:23:40 2001
Message-Id: <200102122323.SAA22136@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:23:30 -0500
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Mon Feb 12 18:15:18 EST 2001
rbish zephyred me about a screensaver problem she was having today.
She ran xss-button from dash, clicked on it, and walked away. When
she returned, she noticed that the screen had failed to lock. This was
in her console:
17:36 xss: LOCK ClientMessage received while already locked.
17:36
17:36 ##############################################################################
17:36
17:36 xss: X Error! PLEASE REPORT THIS BUG.
17:36
17:36 ##############################################################################
17:36
17:36 X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
17:36 Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
17:36 Resource id in failed request: 0x1c00001
17:36 Serial number of failed request: 1978
17:36 Current serial number in output stream: 1979
17:36
17:36 ##############################################################################
17:36
17:36 If at all possible, please re-run xscreensaver with the command line
17:36 arguments `-sync -verbose', and reproduce this bug. That will cause
17:36 xscreensaver to dump a `core' file to the current directory. Please
17:36 include the stack trace from that core file in your bug report.
17:36
17:36 http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/bugs.html explains how to create the
17:36 most useful bug reports, and how to examine core files.
17:36
17:36 The more information you can provide, the better. But please report
17:36 report this bug, regardless!
17:36
17:36 ##############################################################################
17:36
She ran:
athena% ps -A |grep xss
6921 pts/0 0:00 xss-butt
athena% ps -A | grep xscreen
(nothing)
She clicked on the button again. No error was produced, nor did the
screen lock.
> nope nor does it appear to even recognize that I'm clicking it and
> if i invoke the menu with the right mouse button and click "activate
> screensaver" nothing happens then either
I had her do:
add consult
punt xss-button
> a window came up that said "screen saver exited with status 1"
> and the button went away
She ran xss-button from Dash again, and everything worked OK.
It now looks like xss crashed, and I think if she had ran xss -sync
-verbose right then, she might have had a better chance of reproducing
the problem. There is unfortunately no core file to examine.
SunOS buglounge3.mit.edu 5.7 Generic_106541-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Athena Workstation (sun4) Version 8.4.20 Thu Feb 8 22:48:25 EST 2001
And that's all she wrote.
-Beland
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