[7562] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.2R: zwgc hung on login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y.Jaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bjas)
Tue May 14 15:20:55 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 15:20:38 EDT
From: Barr3y.Jaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bjaspan@mit.edu <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: steve-dallas
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.2R (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
Log in.
What's wrong:
My xsession got as far as starting zwgc, and eventually I got the
following message:
15:08 zwgc: Connection timed out while setting location
Then, nothing happend. I wait, and nothing continued to happen; the
load on the machine was 0. I logged in remotely to find that zwgc was
the only thing running (besides my xsession) so it looks like it was
waiting for something before it would background itself, but that
something never happened. I sent it a SIGTERM and got
15:08 zwgc: Interrupted system call while subscribing
at which point it kept waiting. A couple minutes later I killed it
again, got
15:13 zwgc: Interrupted system call while subscribing
again, but then the rest of my login proceeded; interestingly, after
the second kill, I still had a zwgc process but with a different pid
(I guess that means it forked and backgrounded itself?).
What should have happened:
zwgc should not wait forever without backgrounding itself.
