Re: FVWM: fvwm disappears!

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:01:07 +0100

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 10:20:40AM +0000, gsez020_at_compo.bedford.waii.com wrote:
> >>>>> "erik" == esteffl <esteffl_at_pbi.net> writes:
> >>>>> "Pete" == Pete Forman <gsez020_at_compo.bedford.waii.com> writes:
>
> erik> I have a very strange problem with fvwm - quite often,
> erik> after coming back to work, I find that the fvwm
> erik> disappeared. there are no borders around the windows, pager
> erik> is gone, focusing does not work etc.
>
> erik> I thought that the fvwm crashed but then I checked
> erik> 'ps -ef|grep fvwm' and I saw that all the fvwm processes are
> erik> running (fvwm itself and few modules).
>
> erik> my configuration:
> erik> fvwm 2.2.2
> erik> solaris
> erik> exceed (X server under windows NT)
>
> erik> sometime we have network problems - is it possible for
> erik> fvwm to stop working after receiving timeout? or something
> erik> like that? other applications work (xterms, netscape etc.)
>
> Pete> I have seen that sort of problem with a similar setup.
> Pete> Maybe once in a couple of weeks. I don't know if fvwm was
> Pete> still running but I'll try a restart next time. My config
> Pete> is fvwm 2.1.10, Solaris 2.6, Exceed 6.0 on NT4 SP3.
>
> For the record, I had another glitch this morning. Fvwm disappeared
> from the X display. fvwm2 and the modules I used still showed up on
> ps. I tried "kill -USR1" on the fvwm2 process but this killed the
> processes completely. That command does normally work to restart
> fvwm.

Pete, I still don't know what could be the cause of the problem.
Are there no traces of what has happened anywhere?

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Received on Wed Nov 17 1999 - 07:58:56 GMT

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