[20428] in Athena Bugs
Re: TSM Failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Thu Jun 27 14:40:05 2002
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: rar@MIT.EDU, davek@mitvma.MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:36:09 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:40:02 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Alex,
Thanks. Yes, I am on a new SunBlade 100. I got it to work with shear
persistence after the 10th try. At least it is going although the Status
Report Window is "locked" in the upper left corner of the screen and I can't
move it and it is always on top (i.e. I can't overlay another window on it.)
I'll be glad to try the new TSM when it is ready.
Roger
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> You report:
>
> >I took the new Athena and now am having problems with TSM. I was unable to
> >get TSM started. Each time I started a backup, it bombed with the following
> >written to the console.
> >
> >rar.mit.edu(8:37am)% dsm &
> >[2] 25063
> >[1] Done dsm
> >rar.mit.edu(8:38am)% X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window
> >parameter)
> > Major opcode of failed request: 61 (X_ClearArea)
> > Resource id in failed request: 0x68001fd
> > Serial number of failed request: 97575
> > Current serial number in output stream: 97590
>
> I was able to reproduce this (on a Sun; are you using that platform?)-
> on several attempts, I also got a situation where the dsm backup
> window was "frozen"- none of the menus or buttons worked, and there
> was no border. I could only get rid of it by killing the process.
>
> I think the problem is that there's some X incompatibility between the
> version of the sawfish window manager in Athena 9.1 and the current dsm GUI.
> I presume you didn't have this problem on Athena 9.0?
>
> I believe I've found a work-around: try logging in using Login Options ->
> login using Dash interface. That seems to fix it for me.
>
> I'll be installing a new TSM version this Summer and I hope that will make
> the problem go away.
>
> Alex
>
