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Re: 8.2 Ultra 10 xlogin drops to console login spontaneously

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 4 01:30:36 1998

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 01:27:00 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3503] in testers"

> On my Ultra 10 running 8.2.0, xlogin sometimes dies with "unexpected
> SIGCHLD" or something like that, leaving a console login up.

It's hard to tell why this might have happened.  I've submitted a fix
for a bug related to this problem (the "unexpected SIGCHLD" error
message is the result of a signal race), but I can't guarantee it will
stop dm from exiting.

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