xdm failures

From: Larry Griffith <larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:30:47 -0500

Dear Managers,

        On one of our DEC 3000 AXP's running OSF/1 v3.2, xdm has failed several times
in the past couple of days, dumping core and whoever was logged in. The core
dump is charged to root, not the user of the moment.

        The X configuration of this workstation had not been changed since v3.2 was
installed.

        The xdm-errors file reads like this (we aren't running DECnet; xdm is process
506, and I have no idea what 2816 is):

Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
error (pid 506): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 2816
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

X Toolkit Warning:
    Name:
    Class: XmText
    XtGrabKeyboard failed

error (pid 506): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 2816
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
      after 429 requests (428 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
error (pid 506): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 2816
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported

        I checked the integrity of xdm and many of its support files against known
working copys on another machine; they are identical.

        Any clues?


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Larry Griffith                       Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu          Westfield State College
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Received on Fri Mar 08 1996 - 22:03:14 NZDT

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