[3567] in testers
Re: Dead dm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 10 18:42:50 1998
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:42:39 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3531] in testers"
> When I arrived at my office just now, small-gods was at a console
> login prompt.
I think I have some more data on this. I just logged out to leave for
the evening, then remembered I wanted to do something (install a
debugging dm) and came back in. I logged in, replaced /etc/athena/dm
(but the running version was still the old one), fiddled with my
syslog.conf and restarted syslogd, and then all of a sudden dm killed
my X server and said "X server failed to become ready." It seems like
more than 90 seconds (3*X_START_WAIT) elapsed from first logout to dm
killing all my stuff, but I now think that it may be a case of dm not
handling the SIGUSR1 from X properly. In which case I shouldn't see
the problem any more now that I've fixed that race condition. We
shall see.
