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From: km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Termination Problem using X11 on Sun3/50
Message-ID: <2257@emory.uucp>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 00:42:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: emory.2257
Posted: Thu Sep 24 00:42:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 16:26:30 EDT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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I have been having problems terminating X11 on my Sun 3/50.  I start it
from my login shell on the console with "xinit xterm", and terminate by
exiting the xterm. I get a message to the console from xinit telling me
that it is killing the server. I then see my login shell die, a getty
appear, and getty complain about not being able to read. I am unable to
log back in on the console (no input echos).

When I try a "stty everything </dev/console " from another terminal it
looks sane. If I try a "cat </dev/console", cat aborts saying that the
read would block.

Presumably what is happening is that the console is being left in a
state where "read" returns "-1" continually with an errno of
"EWOULDBLOCK". The shell dies and the getty complains because of this.

I have read the README in server/sun directory. "kbd_mode -a" does no
good. Presumably, I should not even need it since I am terminating X
normally, not abnormally. So far I have found no cure except to reboot,
although I have not tried very much yet. I am running SunOS 3.4 on a
Sun3/50 which is one of the tested configurations.

Any suggestions?
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