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From: stevef@bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: DISPLAY and XSTATION variables become unset for Xstations
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.202534.14957@bony1.bony.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 20:25:34 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.135503.6080@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <966@airgun.wg.waii.com>
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In article <966@airgun.wg.waii.com> markw@airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel) writes:
>In article <1991Jun3.135503.6080@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, viscuso@tiberius.tc.cornell.edu (Paul Viscuso) writes:
>> We recently installed the 3005 upgrade to our RS/6000's (model 530s).
>> Every once in a while, when someone goes to log in at an Xstation,
>> the DISPLAY and XSTATION environment variables are lost...
>
>Actually... We see the problem on our X-station 120's anytime the user 
>failes his login.. I.E. invalid uid and/or password.   The xlogin stuff
>that x-station manager is using is destroying the login envionment that
>was setup by x-station manager see IBM apar IX19109 for symptoms and fix.
>
>IBM says fix is in 2007 ?!?!?!   and can't even tell me when (if ever)
>it will ship... all I get is mabey in 3.2!!!
>
>We are at 3005 from 3003 upgrade.  And are running x-station manager 1.2
>with the X11R4 servers on the X-120's...
>
>You can also CNTL-C out of the login, wait for the new login window and
>try again... this will have the envionment set correctly...  

>-- 
>Mark Whetzel     My comments are my own, not my company's.
>Western Geophysical - A division of Western Atlas International,
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Alternatively, the user can simply set the variables DISPLAY XSTATION
appropriately (for example: DISPLAY=ibmxst1:0 XSTATION=ibmxst1), and
go about his/her business.  IBM DOES have a fix for this, and we
received it, installed it, and are now happy.

        - Steve -
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