[9269] in Athena Bugs
ez / troff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Mon May 4 01:38:58 1992
Date: Mon, 4 May 92 01:38:46 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-andrew@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
I'm sending this report in on the behalf of the user djgrana. He has a
10 page document named broken.ez (by me) in his homedir (it should be
readable). The 10th page does not preview. Moreover, repeated attempts
to preview or print the the file will result in a number of troff, eqn,
and other processes lying around, some of them mysteriously in disk
wait.
This happened on an IBM RT. When I first tried to help him, I could
not bring up a preview window. It took too long, so I did a `ps ux' and
got ``No more processes.'' This is a bug in itself...ez should be able
to bring up a dialog box saying what's going on in the case that the
process table fills up when doing something. What's it doing, ignoring
the return status of fork/vfork? I quit the dash to do a ps, and found
about 10 troffs, a couple suspicious sh -c '/tmp/blah-ez-blah-blah,' and
an eqn or two, almost all of which were in disk wait. I asked him if he
had gotten any filserver errors from his homedir on Atlas, but he said he
hadn't seen any. If I had been thinking, I would have done an `ofiles'
to see what they were waiting on, but I didn't. I mailed myself a
process listing but did not get it for some reason, so I can't include
it here.
The file contains a number of footnotes.
Please forward any comments/solutions to djgrana@athena.mit.edu.
