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From: tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Bug in FIXDISK 2?
Keywords: lost windows
Message-ID: <21503@rphroy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 14:52:37 GMT
Organization: GM Research Labs, Warren, MI
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I recieved FIXDISK 2 last night and installed them looking forward to
seeing what Lenny was talking about (Metermaid etc.).

After rebooting and playing a little bit, I managed to lose the ksh that
was running in a full screen window.  The working icon was lit, and nothing
else worked.

I opened a new window, and ran ps.  The ksh in the original window was
not listed.  Oh well,  may as well continue.  After some further playing,
that ksh also died.  Opening a yet another window and running ps showed
that again ksh had died, but the window was left behind.

I decided to see if the window was still active so I did something like
$ echo hello > /dev/w6

Sure enough hello was displayed in the dead window.
But I still could not get rid of the window.  Maybe logging out
will help, (so I did).

When I logged back in, what did I find but that same window just sitting
there.  It seemed that the kernel had somehow forgotten its existence.
Rebooting DID fix it.

I have never seen this happen before, so I can only assume that this is
a new bug introduced in 3.51m.  I do not know how to duplicate this.
Has anyone else seen this problem, or perhaps know its cause?

Also playing with the three-shift-key functions showed that they were
acting kinda' flakey as well.  (They would not always toggle properly.)
Maybe these problems are related, I do not know.

Any guesses?


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Tom Tkacik		GM Research Labs,   Warren MI  48090
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