topic Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ? in Operating System - HP-UX

CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

Stuart Abramson_2 — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:43:19 GMT

My windows are just going away for no apparent reason.

If I look in $HOME/.dt/errorlog.old, I get:

t# cat errorlog.old
*** INFORMATION(0): dtwm: PID 4896: Tue Jun 17 11:02:46 2003
Workspace Manager: I/O error on display:: 172.20.5.226:0.0

*** [121]

What does that mean?

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

John Dvorchak — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:53:11 GMT

Is this a Workstation with a Graphics console or are you using an Xserver on a remote system?
In any event the server, 172.20.5.226, has an IO issue. If this is remote you can suspect the LAN if it is the local console then perhaps a call to HP hardware support is in order.

Please describe the environment, X to a remote. Local workstation etc.

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

K.Vijayaragavan. — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:00:31 GMT

run " /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt "to find out what is wrong with the CDE.

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

Ollie R — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:03:15 GMT

Stuart,
Is there any indication of problems in your syslog file?
Ollie.

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

Rick Beldin — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:37:48 GMT

I/O error on display means that your Xserver died or, if using an Xterminal or PC X emulator, that you lost your network connection.

The messages is from dtwm (the window manager) and is not the cause, but a symptom of problems with your Xserver and/or network.

If you are a workstation, then you might see something in /var/dt/Xerrors that has more information about the nature of the failure. If you are on an Xterminal or PC Xserver, I would start verifying that you aren't losing network services from time to time.

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

Stuart Abramson_2 — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:48:21 GMT

1. I am an Exceed user on a Windows/NT desktop connected to the Xserver on an N4000 running HP-UX 11.0.

2. No errors in syslog.

3. dr_dt (good idea) didn't say anything bad.

4. I kind of like the network LAN problem. But why didn't it affect any of my other windows? It only affected the lower left window in my upper left "window pane".

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:24:09 GMT

Hi,

Just found a good page, there could be multiple causes.

http://www.hummingbird.com/support/nc/exceed/exceed6x.html

Take a look,

Robert-Jan.

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

Mike Stroyan — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:15:13 GMT

If it is just dtterms (and other terminals) that are going away, then the classic reason is that you left them at a shell prompt and the shell timed out.
Posix-sh and ksh will exit if "TMOUT" seconds goes by while waiting at the shell prompt. (It actually gives a warning at the timeout- "Shell will time out in 60 seconds.")
csh will exit if "autologout" minutes goes by waiting at a shell prompt. (It just prints "auto-logout" and exits without a warning.)

The TMOUT default is 0, which means never. The csh autologout default is 600, which will time out in 10 hours.

Re: CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

Leandro Lucena — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:43:52 GMT

This is a patch issue. It heappened with me too. Download PHSS_27869 and its pre-requisits.

Please check the HPUX version. This patch is for 11.00

Best Regards,

Leandro Lucena.