Conference csc32::consolemanager

1160.0. "VCS edit hangs on VT1300" by 42326::SYMONDSK () Sun Jan 21 1996 11:40

    Dear All,
    
    I have a customer who is running VCS V1.4 to a VT1300 and has also
    applied CSCPAT_1055 and CSCPAT_1090 and when he envokes the C3 window the 
    VAX icons are displayed and once this display is created the terminal 
    freezes before displaying the labels or lines drawn in VCS. Other icons 
    can be used normally (DECterm etc.) until the screen freezes when nothing 
    works.
    
    The only way to 'unfreeze' the display is to CTRL+Y the current
    $vcs edit session.
    
    The VT1300 is running EWS and the following are the Motif idents etc:
    
    DECwindows ident is                     DW V1.2-940307
    DECwindows server ident is              DW V1.1-920620
    DECwindows transport ident is           DW V1.2-940307
    DECwindows xlib ident is                DW V1.2-940307
    DECwindows motif toolkit ident is       DW V1.2-940307
    DECwindows apps ident is                DW V1.2-940307
    DECwindows apps ident is                DW V1.2-940307
    
    The EWS server is a 6620, but when my customer display's the C3 window
    to another X-Terminal performing a $ vcs edit/verify /sav on it all is
    o.k.
    
    One interesting thing is when my customer shut's down the session
    manager on the VT1300 he gets the following in his
    sys$login:decw$sm.log file:
    
    Executing SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]DECW$SYLOGIN.COM;
    
    
    Executing run sys$system:decw$session
    
    System Menu Bar: Pseudo Mouse not available
    
    XIO:  fatal IO error 65535  on X server "WSA1:"
          after 377 requests (369 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
    
    Fatal error detected, image exitting -- final message:
    
    Exiting DECW$STARTSM.COM
    
    Can someone please explain the behaviour at all or is it EWS causing
    the problem due to possible memory leaks ?
    
    Regards,
    Kevin Symonds.

    Your symptoms sound to me like resource exhaustion on the VT1300.
    I'm not going to be able to help you out much with it becuase I do not 
    know what can be tuned on them or if anything can be.
    
    Regs,
      Dan