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From: bob%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Re: X periodically dies on Sun 3.2
Message-ID: <3777@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 09:16:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 09:16:27 1987
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In article <1801@megaron.arizona.edu> whm@arizona.edu (Bill Mitchell) writes:
>I recently installed X V10R4 on our 3.2 Suns ...  running xinit on my
>Sun and rsh somevax xterm mysun:0, I get dropped back out to where I
>started xinit from csh.  That is:
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>xinit
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>There seems to be no pattern to when this happens.  Sometimes it'll
>last all night, sometimes less an hour or so.  It's gotten me both
>after long periods of inactivity and between keystrokes.

	Two of our users have complained of the same phenomenon.  They
think it may be after long periods of typing into a remote client
without any other activity on the local server - particularly, no
mouse motion.  It seems that when they jostle the mouse occasionally
the symptom isn't noticed.

	It's particularly frustrating to me because I haven't seen it
myself (I mouse a lot), and they can't really provide me with
reproduce-by scripts.  I suggested the gross hack of using
XWarpMouse() to (virtually) move the mouse in little circles, one step
every fifteen seconds or so, and observing the effect.  No reports
back as to whether this changed anything, but you might try it.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
 bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bob
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