[20421] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.9: Athena 9.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M. Cunningham)
Wed Jun 26 14:24:35 2002
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:24:09 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: "Kevin M. Cunningham" <kcunning@MIT.EDU>
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At 11:27 AM -0400 6/26/02, Greg Hudson wrote:
>Thanks for reporting this. The most likely theory is that the
>hexagon-soccer-ball screen hack triggers a bug in the Solaris X server
>or graphics driver, causing the machine to wedge. We can take it out of
>the list of screensavers to run, and also possibly send a bug report to
>Sun (since the screen hack presumably makes for a nice test case).
>
>When you report a bug involving a hung machine, it's nice to say whether
>the machine still pings from another machine, and also whether it
>responds to stop-A. Doesn't really affect the diagnosis much in this
>case, though.
Thanks for the response.
FYI, it *did* respond to Stop-A.
I didn't try to ping it.
--Kevin
