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deactivation of machines running new xdm; console lossage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 28 19:32:42 1990

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 19:32:24 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.Edu>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

I noticed that the machines in the SIPB office (which are now running
xdm, with RVD system packs) have had trouble detaching /srvd.
(Specifically, they couldn't.  Marc says it's probably due to
/usr/.../rgb.txt being kept open.)

I logged in to look at the console text, but found the messages from
deactivation were no longer there.  When I was trying to scroll it
further up just to be sure, I got a bunch of garbage characters in two
lines above the "top" of my text.

The first line is just black squares on the white background.  The
second is a solid black line, with some extra black pixels, as though
a large number of lines of text with occasional descenders were
overprinted.

A window dump showing the image I saw is in
/mit/bitbucket/raeburn/console.xwd.

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