[2241] in testers
small oddity at my first 7.6 try
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory A. Jackson)
Tue Jul 27 11:21:05 1993
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: Gregory A. Jackson <gjackson@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 11:20:54 EDT
This morning was my first 7.6 login. This happened in my console:
11:00 Athena Server (DSMAXINE) Version 7.6C Mon Jul 26 16:46:21 1993
11:00 Setting up environment...
11:00 Starting vtwm.gamma window manager...
11:00 Starting the Athena Dashboard...
11:00 Creating initial xterm window...
11:00 Running standard startup activities...
11:01 You have 21 messages (67243 bytes) on PO6.MIT.EDU.
11:01 Running custom startup activities listed in ~/.startup.X...
11:01 [1] 28423
11:01 alexp: amadeus.MIT.EDU :0.0 Mon Jul 26 09:55:55 1993
11:01 dot: pianoforte.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 08:00:12 1993
11:01 gjackson: mystery.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 11:01:04 1993
11:01 jdaly: elysianfields.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 09:08:06 1993
11:01 katiel: wimsey.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 08:48:37 1993
11:01 lavin: m1-115-4.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 09:09:42 1993
11:01 nschmidt: stage6.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 08:04:03 1993
11:01 rar: rar.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 08:09:18 1993
11:01 rdumas: willys.MIT.EDU :0.0 Tue Jul 27 08:09:45 1993
11:01 [2] 28426
11:01 Session initialization completed.
11:01 X Error: BadWindow
11:01 Major Opcode: 20
My startup.X does this:
add sipb
add softbone
add graphics
add pictures
add net-tools
add weather
xzwrite +av -a -geometry 180x30-1-1 &
znol
# xphoon
dash -show clock
/mit/gjackson/show-weather &
# xv -root -quit -maxpect -rmode 5 /mit/weather/SURFACE/latest
# floatbg &
# xloadimage -onroot capecod.gif &
and judging from what happened the source of the BadWindow was my
show-weather script, which does this:
#!/bin/csh -f
while (1)
xv -root -quit -rmode 5 /mit/weather/SURFACE/latest
sleep 2000
end
and the reason I think this is the problem is that my weather map
never came up, but everything else I usually see did. When I ran ps
and ps -aux, the "sleep 2000" was there, which suggests the script ran
but xv didn't -- at least during startup.
I killed the show-weather job, reran the script, and the backdrop came
up fine. So there's no fundamental problem with xv.
As I say, no big deal, but I thought you might like to know in case
this signals some bigger problem.
gj
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