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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.0 bug (or feature?)
Message-ID: <426@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 19 Feb 91 18:40:22 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.122916.24724@wam.umd.edu> <432G31*o@cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <432G31*o@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>I have seen one other message in this group describing this
>phenomenon, and it has also happen to me on several occasions.  It
>must be an OS bug(perhaps a setup problem), and a nasty one at that.
>Has anyone else been automagically logged out?

The phenomenon of getting "automagically logged out" usually means
that the window server died.  The window server is basically the
PostScript interpreter.  Evidently there are still some conditions
(PostScript errors) that can cause the window server to crash.  It's
not really an OS problem (the OS doesn't crash), and the only reason
you're "logged out" is that all of your processes quit when the window
server quits.  You may notice messages in the log file that say
something like "Exiting due to window server death".

Anyway, I've had the window server crash during software development
work when I'm pushing things, and sometimes when I've got hundreds of
fonts loaded, but I can't seem to find a repeatable sequence that will
crash it.  Sigh.

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