From: Andrew J. Cosgriff ! (ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au)
Date: 11/15/92


From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Xterm dies with 0.98pl4
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:37:40 GMT

chad@eng.umd.edu (R Michael McMahon) writes:

>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.

Yep, happened to me one day...two of them disappeared, so I opened
another...It disappeared after a minute or two..

???

It hasn't happened again...
(386-25 8-( 8M, no SCSI compiled in, TCP/IP in but doing very little 8-)

Cos !

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