Hi,
I'm going to put this one to bed. The curious thing from the replies was
that some other people's X servers crashed
at approximately the same time. I'm pretty confident there is no link
between them and any of the systems I know. The only common link I can find
is that all were running Netscape though not looking at pages from the same
sites. Considering the other problems Netscape has I'm going to believe it
is at the root of the problem and some set of circumstances connected to UTC
provokes the Xserver lockup.
Thanks for feedback from Br Thomas Blinn, Selden Ball, Matt Morris, Robert
Bumpus, Emmanuel Stamatakis and William Magill.
Joe
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Calling Mulder and Scully, this one is definitely wierd. Two workstations,
one is an Alphastation 500/500 running 5.0A in London and the other is an
XP1000 running 5.1 in Cambridge. On a number of occasions the displays on
these workstations have locked up with the X server process running at 100%
CPU. The strange thing is that the lockup happens simultaneously on the two
machines. There is no connection of any sort between the two boxes. The 500
is on a private network behind firewalls and is not externally accessible by
anything. In /var/adm/syslog.dated.current/user.log on both machines the
following error appears.
Feb 13 15:12:30 alpha500 syslog: libtt[216518]: ttdt_Xt_input_handler():
tttk_message_receive(): TT_ERR_NOMP^I
No ttsession process is running, probably because tt_open() has not been
called yet.
If this code is returned from tt_open() it means ttsession could not be
started, which generally means ToolTalk is not installed on this system.
Anyone got ANY idea (outside of some bizarre quantum tunnelling mechanism)
how and why these two systems exhibit this connection?
MetaPack
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