[2714] in testers
Re: beta-sun4sys missing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 21 22:19:58 1994
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 22:19:35 -0500
To: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
Cc: David Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2708]
name service.... The can't start X may be an indication that the
machine requires the network to start X and should be tracked down
and made independent.... (if for no other reason than to get the
screen saver going and not panic users).
I reported this as a bug a while ago, it was #2600 in netprob.
Here is the reply I got.
> We are very sorry to have displeased you (We = Sun team). We never promised
> you a rose garden and never promised you or anybody else to have xlogin/dm start
> when srvd is not attached. What you are supposed to do is to login on the console
> and to sync your filesystem and after that type HALT or REBOOT depending on your
> preferance. Unless you show me a document which states that we are supposed to
> have xlogin starting in the absence of srvd, I am going to archive this bug...
> unless you are ready to spend the time to decide what needs to be local for xlogin
> to start without srvd.....
I don't know of any document that states that xlogin should start up
even without the network (just that it has always worked that way, at
least since we started running X all of the time), and I never got
back to them. The bug seems to have been resolved. That doesn't mean
I wouldn't like to see X run even without the network.
Jonathon
