Hi Bob,

Thanks for the information. Do you have an idea when this patch/fix will
be publically released and available through a sunsolve patch?

Bob Doolittle schrieb:

> A fix for this problem will be in the next SRSS 4.1 patch.
> 
> Thank you for reporting it.
> 
> -Bob
> 
> Jens Langner wrote:
>> Hello SunRayers,
>>
>> this is my first post to this mailing list. However, I do have checked
>> the archives and couldn't find any solution for the problem I am
>> reporting here now.
>>
>> We do have a large SUNray installation at our organisation with 90+
>> SUNrays connected to various Solaris and Linux-based SRSS. Here at our
>> institute we do have certain old applications which required an 8bit
>> PseudoColor visual to run.
>>
>> With versions previous to SRSS 4.1 we could perfectly switch those
>> SUNrays or smartcard based tokens to use 8bit PseudoColor visual as the
>> default (i.e. utxconfig -p default) and those application worked
>> properly with it.
>>
>> However, with the new SRSS 4.1 incl. the latest -01 patch, we are
>> running into severe problems here. I do have understood that for 8bit
>> visuals I am bind to using SRSS 4.1 under Solaris. That's fine with us.
>> I also understood that for using 8 bit PseudoColor I do have to switch
>> to Xsun (i.e. utxconfig -b Xsun). However, as soon as I specify to use
>> of 8bit PseudoColor as the default (either globally or based on a single
>> token) the CDE login will never appear here and the Xserver seems to be
>> constantly crashing/exiting.
>>
>> Here are the utxconfig settings:
>>
>> -- cut here --
>> DIMENSIONS=auto
>> ENABLE_PSEUDOCOLOR_VISUAL=yes
>> DEFAULT_PSEUDOCOLOR_VISUAL=yes
>> ENABLE_MULTISCREEN=yes
>> ENABLE_XINERAMA=no
>> ENABLE_XKB=yes
>> SCREEN_GEOMETRY=auto
>> SCREEN_ORDER=auto
>> XSERVER_PREF=Xsun
>> -- cut here --
>>
>> The interesting part is, that as soon as I disable 8bit PseudoColor as
>> the default the Xsession correctly appears, however, our applications
>> require to have 8bit PseudoColor enabled as the default visual.
>>
>> After some short investigation I found the following errors in the
>> /var/dt/Xerrors file:
>>
>> -- cut here --
>> Fatal server error:
>> WaitForSomething(): select: errno=22
>>
>> X connection to :2.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>>
>> Fri Jan 30 11:39:28 2009
>> error (pid 23150): Server for display :2 terminated unexpectedly 1
>> -- cut here --
>>
>> And this is continuing endlessly. So the Xserver is tried to be
>> continuously started and started without any success.
>>
>> Now I am of course curious if anyone else in here can reproduce this
>> behaviour on his own Solaris10 SRSS4.1 installation? And if so, is there
>> a known fix for that or something that can be done to have that
>> situation resolved? We really do require 8bit PseudoColor visuals
>> running as default, but all my attempts with SRSS 4.1 failed so far. So
>> we are stuck with SRSS 4.0 until this issue is solved.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> jens
>>   
> 


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Jens Langner                                         Ph: +49-351-2602757
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.
Institute of Radiopharmacy - PET Center                 [email protected]
Germany                                               http://www.fzd.de/
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