[896] in testers
console not always scrolling when necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon May 28 05:11:16 1990
Date: Mon, 28 May 90 05:10:49 -0400
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
On an RT at 7.0D (sorry, not E yet) my AFS tokens expired. When I
tried to save an emacs buffer, the console window showed this (not
indented):
04:29 afs: Tokens for user of AFS id 10993 for cell athena.mit.edu have
When I scrolled down with the scrollbar, I found this on the next
line (which was not yet visible):
expired
What should have happened:
The console window should have scrolled up to show the word "expired".
(Further investigation, just before I mailed this, showed that the
console window seems to never scroll up when an overly-long line is
displayed. However, when I sent a file of several overly-long lines
with /bin/write, the console window did scroll the appropriate amount.)
BTW, I later tried this on a 7.0E vs2000. The "tokens expired"
message showed up in an xterm, instead of the console window. That
xterm was invoked with "-C", so I'm not surprised that it got the
error message, but why didn't the same thing happen on the RT? Also,
in the "-C" xterm, only on the RT I got this:
afs: failed to store file in volume 536871215 (error 13)
I didn't get that message at all on the vs2000.
The vs2000 is "mkserv ops"
The RT is "mkserv ops hesiod kerberos nfs pop remote"
Both are somewhat modified in ways that shouldn't matter.
