MVII/GPX QDSS write_ID: timeout trying to write to VIPER

[Ian! D. Allen [CGL]]

                                                  uerf version 3.1-003 (113)

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----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS                             OPERATIONAL EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE                  250.     ASCII MSG
SEQUENCE NUMBER                 49.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Tue Sep  4 18:12:37 1990 EDT
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      watscrooge
SYSTEM ID                 x08000000
SYSTYPE REG.              x01010000
                                        FIRMWARE REV = 1.
PROCESSOR TYPE                          KA630
MESSAGE
                                        write_ID: timeout trying to write to
                                         _VIPER

If you run your MVII/GPX with the MIT X11R4 server and don't disable the
console tty, this may happen to you some time if you run xdvi, especially
if you page quickly and/or use the magnifier.  Your X server will hang. 
If you kill the getty running on the console, so that it restarts and
prints the login banner on your screen again, the X server will unfreeze
and afterward you'll see the above errors in the "uerf" database.  If you
disable the console tty (in /etc/ttys), xdvi will not hang.

This is a point of information for those who like to leave the console
enabled in /etc/ttys even when running an X server.  I've not had this
problem on B&W hardware.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
 [129.97.128.64]  Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada