[26800] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux: X server: DontZap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Sat Apr 1 15:44:03 2006
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> I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks on me... but under
> Athena 9.3 (or earlier), wasn't the XFree86 "DontZap" option
> enabled for Linux machines?
Yes. This is supposed to get dealt with in two different places, neither
of which is still working properly. (There were also a few generations
of cluster hardware which didn't autoreport settings properly which had a
configuration force-installed which includes this.)
> (It looks like the athena-ws postinstall scriptlet still tries to
> enable DontZap, but it only looks for the old XFree86 config file.
Yup. See also /etc/athena/fix-xconfig, part of the public workstation
cleanup.
Thanks for the report and the patch. It's not clear yet what we
ultimately want to do with all this, though.
