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From: mehlhaff@hailstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Mehlhaff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Installation of X11R4 on apollo
Summary: similar problems here
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Date: 28 Feb 91 05:19:45 GMT
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In article <16882@accuvax.nwu.edu> dosa@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Chonghoon Kim) writes:
>I am trying to install X11R4 on my DN2500 station. I ftp'd
>core distribution from mordred.cs.purdue.edu. After compilation
>and installation, I found that the server (Xapollo) won't
>communicate with client programs. Can anybody comment about
>this disaster? I'll really appreciate it. Thanks. 
>
	I've had similar problems here.  And some new ones.  Basically, the
clients not communicating with the server seems to be a random thing, and 
doesn't happen all the time.  Maybe 1 in 20 can't connect.  But if that one is
the one at the end of your Xsession, well, then you get logged out...
	AS far as new ones, on our diskless nodes, when someone logs out of 
a session, the xdm seems to have problems resetting, and we end up with a 
blank (grey) screen with no login window.  APollo's X that came with 10.3 did
this too.  We thought MIT X11R4 would fix this, but no luck.
	And even more serious, our X server occasionally dies, and won't come
back up.  When we try to restart it, the gpr_$init() call fails to set the
screen and the X server gives up.  Sometimes it's aws_$init that fails instead.
And sometimes the server comes up but refuses to accept any keyboard input.
	I downloaded our X source from gatekeeper.dec.com, put in all 18
patches, and compiled it with cc 6.8, under 10.3.  A version compiled with 
cc 6.7 had the same problems.  I'm not sure where to go from here...

ERic Mehlhaff
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