[8552] in Athena Bugs
crashing xterm/vi on RS6000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Big Jim & the Twins (Dusty and Aqu)
Fri Nov 8 10:13:02 1991
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 91 10:13:05 EST
From: Big Jim & the Twins (Dusty and Aqua-marine) <sokoloff@Athena.MIT.EDU>
FRIDAY:
Undocumented feature found while editing a vi file in my login xterm
window. After about 13 lines of text, while in insert mode, the term
stopped inserting characters and refused to respond to any further
commands. I took the text, pasted it to another window and continued
to work after iconifying the login xterm. About 20 minutes later, I
checked on the xterm by de-iconifying it. Still no change, so I tried
to re-iconify it (don't know the meta key/button combo for this, so I
could have hit any of them...) and the xterm crashed with the following
going to console:
>>
09:52 xterm: warning, error event receieved:
09:52 X Error: BadAccess
09:52 Request Major code 30 ()
09:52 Request Minor code 0
09:52 ResourceID 0x600021
09:52 Error Serial #6942
09:52 Current Serial #6951
>>
This was on M11-113-4. I am running vtwm and have had general success
with vi on the RS6000s in the past.
Jim Sokoloff
sokoloff@athena.mit.edu
617-247-8691
