SunOS 4.1 crashes exiting SunView or OpenWindows
Jon Elion
jle at cfm.brown.edu
Sat Dec 1 08:16:17 AEST 1990
Answering my own messages? The electronic equivalent of talking to
yourself! I have solved the mystery of the system crashes when exiting
SunView or OpenWindows. Our .login files all end with:
echo -n "(S)unview or (O)penWindows?: "
set answer=($<)
if ($#answer == 0) exit
switch($answer)
case [sS]*:
/usr/bin/sunview
breaksw
case [oO]*:
$OPENWINHOME/bin/openwin
breaksw
default:
exit
endsw
reset;reset;clear
While this worked fine under SunOS 4.0.3., for some reason, the 'reset'
command reproducibly crashes the system. Invoking OpenWindows or SunView
directly (rather than through the .login procedure) is fine. Using the
'reset' command at any time causes an instant crash.
So... for now, the 'reset' commands are gone from the .login files. They
were formerly necessary to reset keyboard (rarely) and to reset the lookup
table for the console (most times). Is it no longer needed? Why does it
crash the system??
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