[4811] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: my workstation died
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cp@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Apr 22 18:57:19 1990
From: cp@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 90 18:57:02 EDT
System name: w20-575-77
Type and version: VAXSTAR 6.4R
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
I was, in fact, using olc to ask a simple question
What's wrong:
My console window opened up and said:
"Pid 869 killed: xalloc: no swap space" or something like that.
Being in the middle of doing something, I ignored it. About fifteen
seconds later, the keyboard locked and as I moved my mouse around, the
icon moved but did not change from one icon to another the way it
should when you move around. About ten seconds later, my workstation
went all black, and shortly the "Hit any key to start." line came up.
What should have happened:
My workstation should not have died. The "Hit any key to
start." line should not have come up.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Huh? I was on w20-575-77, and was running a number of windows
(you know, two emacs, two xterms, and a clock), but a more graceful
error (such as randomly killing one of my windows or something) would
have been preferable to logging me out without my consent.
