mwm title drag crashes x server sigpipe environment mach arch sparc sun ipx os sunos x x r patchlevel motif i bring up x server using startx and usr bin x xsun the following sequence of actions crashes the x server sigpipe errno xinit reports that connexion to x server lost xinit xsun start mwm start a client with a dpi dpi font move the window by dragging the title bar the server dumps core due to sigpipe one of the two messages is printed connection to x server lost or connection broken errno i believe the first is reported by a client and the second by the server itself next i ran xdm in debug level after the same set of actions xdm reports select returns server for terminated unexpectedly status note the problem doesn t occur with other window managers twm or olwm i have not set ld library path i am not running font server if i start the client with fixed width font i do not see this problem my font path usr lib x fonts misc usr lib x fonts speedo usr lib x fonts dpi usr lib x fonts dpi i did mkfontdir in usr lib x fonts dpi usr lib x fonts dpi usr lib x fonts pex usr lib x fonts speedo and in usr lib x fonts misc this problem seems to occur only on ipx machines i do not see this problem on ipc workstations questions what the hell is goin on what does status mean of the server i d greatly appreciate any hints as to the cause of the problem s ramakrishnan cs dept mcbryde hall vatech
