CDE dtterm windows are going away ?

[Stuart Abramson_2]

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?

[John Dvorchak]

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.

[K.Vijayaragavan.]

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

[Ollie R]

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

[Rick Beldin]

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.

[Stuart Abramson_2]

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".

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

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.

[Mike Stroyan]

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.

[Leandro Lucena]

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.