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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 92
>>>>> "HLH" == Harold L Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:
HLH> Joe, Don't know for sure what happened in your case. It
HLH> appears that all X Clients (including the inernal window
HLH> manager) lost communication with the X Server at about the
HLH> same time. The *IOErrorHandler's are called when
HLH> communication with the X Server is lost. Sounds like you had
HLH> a hiccup in your TCP/IP network stack on your Windows
HLH> machine.
HLH> Lets just forget this unless it happens to you on a regular
HLH> basis.
Hm. It just happened again in emacs:
$ xinit -- -multiwindow -clipboard
<hours pass>
winMutliWindowWMIOErrorHandler!
xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
xinit: connection to X server lost.
I was running emacs on a machine whose network connection blocks for
several seconds every few hours. Usually, the X server (either exceed
or XFree86) just tolerates this, but sometimes it blocks for too long
and the SSH session times out, killing the X processes tunneled over
it. I doubt that this is related, since you said that
winMutliWindowWMIOErrorHandler is a consequence of /all/ clients
losing their connections, but I thought it might be of some
significance.
Best,
--Joe
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Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org