Bug in FIXDISK 2?
Tom Tkacik
tkacik at rphroy.UUCP
Sat Feb 3 01:52:37 AEST 1990
I recieved FIXDISK 2 last night and installed them looking forward to
seeing what Lenny was talking about (Metermaid etc.).
After rebooting and playing a little bit, I managed to lose the ksh that
was running in a full screen window. The working icon was lit, and nothing
else worked.
I opened a new window, and ran ps. The ksh in the original window was
not listed. Oh well, may as well continue. After some further playing,
that ksh also died. Opening a yet another window and running ps showed
that again ksh had died, but the window was left behind.
I decided to see if the window was still active so I did something like
$ echo hello > /dev/w6
Sure enough hello was displayed in the dead window.
But I still could not get rid of the window. Maybe logging out
will help, (so I did).
When I logged back in, what did I find but that same window just sitting
there. It seemed that the kernel had somehow forgotten its existence.
Rebooting DID fix it.
I have never seen this happen before, so I can only assume that this is
a new bug introduced in 3.51m. I do not know how to duplicate this.
Has anyone else seen this problem, or perhaps know its cause?
Also playing with the three-shift-key functions showed that they were
acting kinda' flakey as well. (They would not always toggle properly.)
Maybe these problems are related, I do not know.
Any guesses?
--
Tom Tkacik GM Research Labs, Warren MI 48090
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