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From: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xerver bug (Waitforsomething(): errno=22)
Message-ID: <3566@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 20 May 88 07:58:20 GMT
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Reply-To: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Ever since I installed X11 on my sun3-110, I've had this symptom:
The screen "blinks" (goes black and then returns immediately) and
an error message appears in my console window:

waitforsomething(), errno=22

I get about 5 or 6 of them and then it goes away.  Normally, this
doesn't bother me, but the last time it happened, the screen remained
blank and I couldn't do anything.  I logged in from a remote machine
and did all the appropriate ps's and pstats and so on looking for
something unusual, but I couldn't find anything.  I tried to run
some commands (such as xrefresh), but nothing happened.  I had even
run a couple programs which access the brame buffer directly with no
avail.  Curious as to how badly the hardware was munged, I did the
ever-useful L1-A sequence on the console (with the intent to enter
"c" should it have worked), but that didn't even take.  I didn't
even lose my connection from the remote host.  Nothing was happening...

so, I started to play with signals... I sent sigcont, sighup and finally
sigterm to the server, but nothing happened.  Finally, I sent the KILL
signal and my system crashed.  Suggestions as to what {sh,c}ould I have done?


			...dan