Xref: utzoo comp.windows.open-look:756 comp.windows.news:2543 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!wind!naughton From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.news Subject: Re: OpenWindows crashing on Sparc SLC Message-ID: <8997@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 2 Mar 91 19:56:23 GMT References: <1991Feb28.182526.1408@urz.unibas.ch> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) Followup-To: comp.windows.news Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View, CA Lines: 34 In article , asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder) writes: |> grimm@urz.unibas.ch writes: |> |> >I'm having a problem running OpenWindows 2 on a Sparc SLC, i.e. xnews |> >crashes. Actually the error reads: |> |> >XNeWS: internal error detected (SIGSEGV). |> > Report this problem to a knowledgeable person. |> |> >The weird thing is, that this (discless) SLC is served by a |> >SparcStation 1 (both running SunOS 4.1), on which OpenWindows runs without |> >a problem. Even more so: just a few days ago, it even worked on the SLC, and |> >I can't figure out what change could have caused this. |> >Does anybody have a clue ? |> |> |> We've seen OpenWindows crash on a diskless SLC when heavy swapping occurs. I assumed that something was timing out. In that case, more memory may help. |> |> - Alan |> -- |> asnyder@ernie.artorg.hmc.psu.edu OpenWindows Version 2 is not very robust when you run out of swap space... It usually just crashes with a meaningless error message. Try increasing the swap space on the SLC and see if it gets better. Future versions of OpenWindows will most certainly get better at handling this situation. -Patrick -- ______________________________________________________________________ Patrick J. Naughton email: naughton@sun.com Sun Laboratories voice: (415) 336 - 1080