RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree

["Oliver S Dungey" <odungey at csc dot com>]

Yes. I have posted the information as requested.

For your information there are a number of further problems with CDE/Xfree
in that it manages to crash Xfree quite easily, I haven't got an extensive
list but the main ones I have found so far are:

1. Using the desktop terminal window (dtterm). Click on the options menu
item and Xfree will bomb out with a stackdump.
     - resolution: don't click it.
2. Create a new user account and when you login by default the application
solregis is started. It appears that this also bombs xfree with a
stackdump.
     - resolution: login locally on the Solaris server after account
creation and complete the registration before you start using Xfree with
the account.

I don't really know who's bugs these are but they should not really cause a
crash in Xfree, maybe some warnings but not a full on crash.

Let me know if you have any interest in this area and I can provide more
information.
Oliver





Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>@sources.redhat.com on 08/08/2001
13:10:51

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To:   "'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'"
      <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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Subject:  RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree



So in other words all the users who were having problems with CDE on
Solaris
should be refered to BigAdmin patch?

Can you post the patch number from Sun Web site, so Harold can put in his
documents for the users?

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver S Dungey [mailto:odungey@csc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:07 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
>
>
> I have been using a workaround to get xfree working for the
> last month which has been quite annoying (telnet in to
> server, issue Xsession command etc.). Yesterday I installed
> the recommended patch pack from the Sun bigadmin website and
> CDE/Xfree work fine together now ..... hooorayy!!! this also
> solved all my problems with keyboard mappings, cursors etc.
>
> Oliver
>