[4159] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: xterm, or maybe xsession
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Beth Kevles (Full Time Consultant))
Wed Feb 7 15:49:26 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 90 15:48:46 EST
From: Beth Kevles (Full Time Consultant) <kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: caliban
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 6.4R
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Start up a new xterm
What's wrong:
The sequence of events:
I was trying to remember which button has the menu with the
scrollbar on it, so I hit the middle mouse button while in an xterm. (I
think that nothing was pasted.) Then I tried meta-middle-mouse-button.
My xterm disappeared. (I suppose it iconified, but I didn't think of
that at the time.) So then I went to another xterm and typed
xterm &
At this point, my two existing xterms disappeared. Then the xterm that
I thought had gone away returned, without a prompt. Then my console
window said "Session terminated. Bye". (I *think* it said "Bye".) And
then I finished logging out!
I logged in again without reactivating my workstation, and checked out
/usr/adm/X0msgs, which had no interesting information. There was no
current core file in either / or in /usr/tmp.
What should have happened:
If my workstation had run out of memory it should have said so
and not killed my session! I'd be kind of unhappy if I thought that I
had run out of memory...
Other:
I was running one emacs, three xterms (assuming that one that
disappeared had actually been iconified), xclock, and xload, all under
mwm. I wasn't running any background processes. My dot files should all
be accessable, if you want to see them. My workstation is a vanilla
public configuration.
--Beth
