Xref: utzoo comp.windows.open-look:758 comp.windows.news:2544 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!atlantis.psu.edu!asnyder From: asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder) Newsgroups: ch.sun-managers,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.news Subject: Re: OpenWindows crashing on Sparc SLC Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 17:30:08 GMT References: <1991Feb28.182526.1408@urz.unibas.ch> Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing Lines: 20 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