From: wpwood@darkwing.austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: Misc. problems with latest SLS Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 13:35:50 GMT
Your mail bounced from my site, So....
>1) The second time that the last client closes on the X server, it dies
>unceremoniously. (Running with xdm, the second time I exit to get back
>to the login prompt, the system appears to hang. I traced it to the X
>server dying on a SIGHUP, and xdm exiting because of it; X dies without
>resetting the video mode, keyboard, etc., so it appears as a hang.)
>
Not sure about this one, my monitor is in the shop, so I'm running mono
;-P right now.
>2) xdm doesn't run the setup, startup, or reset scripts. I've disabled
>server grabbing and that didn't help. I grabbed the xdm sources, rebuilt
>it, and that seems to work. Something must be weird in that particular
>build.
>
Check your /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config file. It *sounds* like you are
just missing, or have incorrect, Setup, Startup, and Reset resources.
Specifically, make sure that there is no space at the end of the line,
this will confuse the resource parser.
>3) Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't appear to work for me. It seems to be enabled in
>the kernel.
>
I see the same thing, but I don't have a solution.
>4) I can't seem to shut down the system without the next boot telling me
>that the file system isn't clean. Shouldn't reboot sync the disks and
>mark them as clean?
>
I *think* that this is a normal thing. Even though the disks were
sync'ed, at least the ext2fs sets a bit whether or not the fs needs to
be checked when it is mounted. I don't think that the bit is cleared
by sync'ing, but by unmounting. You may be able to get the fs's
unmounted as you shutdown, but I'm not sure how (some systems let you
set up an /etc/rc.shutdown script, and you do it in there).
>5) On occasion, after mounting a DOS floppy or hard disk, attempts to
>unmount it will report that the device is busy. (No processes are
>using it, nobody has the mount point as their current dir, etc., etc..
>I wonder if the kernel is keeping some reference to it that's screwing
>things up.)
>
I have no idea, and I haven't run into this one either. However, I went
ahead and upgraded to the ALPHA-pl12 kernel almost immediately, so perhaps
it's fixed there.
>6) I created a 24M swap partition, and when I use swapon, it reports that
>it's using 16M of it (I have 16M RAM). Can't the swap space be larger than
>the RAM?
>
Swap partitions are limited to 16M. You can set up more than one, however,
so you should be able to set up a 16M and an 8M.
>Questions:
>1) Is there any way to flip in an out of the X server, to get back
> to the virtual terminals? CTRL-ALT-Fn will get me out, but I
> can't seem to get back.
>
The X server is started on an unused virtual console. In the default
SLS setup, this is tty7, so hit Alt-F7 and see if that gets you to it.
>3) It would be nice to mount System-V file systems. Anybody working
> on that?
>
I'm pretty sure I heard something about this. If it is in ALPHA test,
it would probably be on tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/ALPHA. Take a look
there and see what you can find.
Happy Hunting !!!
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Bill Woodward | wpwood@austin.ibm.com <-- Try this first
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