[3880] in testers
Re: Athena Release Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Aug 18 11:36:39 1998
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:22:36 EDT."
<199808181222.IAA20505@rar.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:36:26 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
(You can use "bugs" rather than "testers" now that the release has
gone public.)
> That is sufficiently vague that it perked my interest. Also, prior
> to the last update, my monitor would power off after 5 or 10 minutes
> of inactivity (I did not actually time it). Now, it does not pwoer
> off at all. I was wondering if there is a variable I should know
> about.
"xset s blank" enables power-saving; "xset s noblank" disables it and
causes the X to come up. 8.2.9 sets noblank at login time on suns,
since monitor power saving mostly generated complaints.
> Also, after the last release, I am frequently getting "Unable to
> start X. Entering console mode." when I logout. I have to do a ^D
> to start X again. Was this a change in the last update.
There were no changes to dm or xlogin in the 8.2.9 update, so it's
probably not related to the update. This would be a bug. To help me
diagnose it, please at some point add a line to your /etc/syslog.conf:
user.debug /var/adm/userdebug
and then, as root, "touch /var/adm/userdebug" and reboot (or restart
the syslogger if you know how). Verify that messages are being logged
to /var/adm/userdebug. The next time you see the condition occur
after that, please mail me the log file.
