[2969] in Athena Bugs
/bin/athena/get_message hanging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 23 14:32:25 1989
From: <djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 14:32:02 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, zephyr-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bgardner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: cfyi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
CC'ed to cfyi because this might appear in the field
bgardner encountered a strange problem today. It was his first time
with the new dot files, and "logout", "end_session" and "end_session
-force" didn't work.
The call in the default .xsession to /bin/athena/get_message (the motd
program) invokes zwrite, and the zwrite hung on Brian. He got the
zgram, but the hung zwrite was acting as the session gating process.
When I killed the zwrite, his .xsession file continued to execute,
running msgchk, xlogout etc. He was then able to logout sucessfully.
I submitted a bug report several days ago explaining that I had twice
had zwrite hang on me when sending long zgrams. I think this is the
same problem, except that now the zwrite is invoked automatically, so
the user cannot simply type ^C to unhang it. bgardner also reports
having found hung zwrites running in his background. These zwrites were
automatically invoked by the mail notification program he was running.
I have not been able to reproduce this hanging zwrite bug.
David Flanagan
