[21047] in Athena Bugs
Re: possible problem with certain xss modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ike)
Sun Nov 10 18:50:25 2002
From: Ike <ike@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 10 Nov 2002 18:50:22 -0500
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I'm fairly certain I've seen two Sun Ultra 5 quickstations completely
hung, displaying a frozen frame of hyperball; by completely hung I mean
not responding to pings or Stop-a. The second one I found, I reported to
hotline. The first one, I was walking along with an rcc when we noticed
it, and he theorized that the quickstations sometimes become hung when
someone fails to log out of them, and an absurd number of bugme windows
pop up. We power-cycled that machine, and it came back up normally.
I probably should have reported this sooner, but I couldn't think of a
good way to reproduce the bug, and I'm not 100% positive it was
hyperball both times, only about 90% sure.
-Ike
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 16:48, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 16:13, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> > How about using the "flag" module, configured via X resources to have
> > a default bitmap of /etc/athena/login/bitmaps/owl?
>
> Sorry to solicit advice and then ignore it, but that doesn't qualify as
> "reasonably pretty" in my book. We will be narrowing down the enabled
> list of modules to three (coral, cynosure, hyperball), which I think
> will resolve the problem.
>
