[23995] in Athena Bugs
Re: Your OLC question about "xess"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Sep 9 18:32:37 2003
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To: birenroy@MIT.EDU
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In-reply-to: "[23992] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 18:32:34 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>A user reported that the current version of Xess locks up inexplicably
>on sun workstations. This was confirmed in our office on the machine
>cruella-de-vil while logged in without customizations. According to
>the user, this did not happen prior to the upgrade to Athena 9.2.
Hi,
Nothing in the Xess locker has changed in a long time so this may be
some interaction between Xess and Athena 9.2; this could be tough
because I can't think of anything that changed between 9.1 and 9.2
that would bother Xess.
I doubt we'll be able to make much headway unless we can reproduce the
problem-
1. Is it reproducible? What is the user trying to do when the lockup happens?
2. If yes, how do I make it happen?
3. Do you see it on multiple machines? consistently?
4. Does it show for different users?
5. Whether or not 1. is true, do you see it a) if you login with: Other
Options -> Restart X in 8 bit mode, b) Login Options -> Login using Dash
interface?
Alex Prengel
Academic Computing Support Team
