Hello managers,
my original post follows at the end of my mail.
Since there is no replies, nothing remains for me but to recall a known
prescription for a patient having been frightened with symptoms of hepatitis
and other awful diseases (by Jerome K.Jerome):
Don't stuff your head with things you don't understand
Thanks,
Irene
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* System administrator, *
* Institute of Automation & Electrometry, *
* Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, *
* Novosibirsk, Russia *
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http://www.iae.nsk.su/~irene *
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Irene A. Shilikhina wrote:
>
> Hello managers,
>
> I've discovered that the file /usr/var/X11/xdm/xdm-errors on our system
> is stuffed with numerous messages of the same content:
>
> BLT engine hung in pwgaFillSolid BUFFERWAIT; resetting...
> BLT engine hung in pwgaFillSolid BUFFERWAIT; resetting...
> BLT engine hung in pwgaFillSolid BUFFERWAIT; resetting...
>
> Though these messages are without time stamp, since among them there is
> one produced with AUDIT system which HAS time mark (and whose interpretation
> I know), I'm inclined to think that for that period when these messages have
> been generated we have had no VISIBLE problems with xdm or Xserver.
>
> I didn't find any relevant information neither in the DECwindows User's Guide
> nor in X Window System Environment documentation (the more so in man pages).
> In the archive there are a number of similar messages but all they differ
> from these in what concerns "FillSolid BUFFERWAIT". Besides, all the messages
> from the archive were accompanied with mentions of xdm failure.
>
> So, I'd like to know:
>
> - what is a reason of these messages?
> - is there interpretation of xdm and Xserver errors available generally
> for users?
> - are these messages alarm?
>
> Additional information:
>
> DEC 2000 model 300;
> DU 3.2 (Rev. 214);
>
> Thanks,
> Irene
Received on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 08:07:40 NZST