From: chad@eng.umd.edu (R Michael McMahon) Subject: Re: Xterm dies with 0.98pl4 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:10:22 GMT
In article <1992Nov13.102025.22518@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, ckub11@zx1.Darkcrystal.Cyberspace (Marc Gutschner) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>I encounter a strange problem with 0.98pl4 and Xfree86 1.0 and 1.1.
>Depending on the phase of the moon, the wall clock and some flies
>crossing through the room, my 1st Xterm simply dies on keyboard input.
>If I start another one from the twm-menu, everything will be fine.
>This appears to be a very subtle problem to me.
>
>As I mentioned this won't happen everytime but you never know when it will
>happen :-(((
>Maybe this is connected to the changes in the maximum number of open
>file-descriptors ? Would it be sufficient to get Xterm-Sources and simply
>recompile ? Any help appreciated.
>
>
I too have seen Xterms mysteriously die upon keyboard input. I first
noticed this under 0.98pl4, but thought it was a user error (like
me hitting CTRL-D by mistake). I'm running on a 486-50, 16M, and
Adaptec 1542 in case there is some hardware pattern here, since there
doesn't appear to be anything else in common: I can't even duplicate
the problem on demand to track it.
Mike McMahon
chad@src.umd.edu