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Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? [message #34478]

Thu, 20 March 2003 10:22

condor
Messages: 35
Registered: January 2002

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For some reason the default retain=1 started working for me a while
ago -- I never had to care about backing store but somewhere during
the upgrade from 5.3 to 5.5 or there around I lost the ability to
obsure windows. This was when I got a new computer (P4-2.8 if it makes
a difference, running RedHat8.0 with whatever version of XF86 is the
default, so the problem might well have to do with X and not IDL).

No problem I thought and added the line "device,retain=2" to my
startup file. Over the next week or two I experience hard crashes on
my bot -- about once a day. I've been noodling around unixoid systems
for a decade now and I've NEVER had to hit a reset button - until now.
At some point I started suspecting it might have to do with the
omnious warnings in the IDL help that retain=2 should only be used for
really important windows and I took the line out of my startup file.
Lo, I haven't had any of those crashes since.

Coincidence? Possibly -- so I figured I'd ask around if others have
experienced similar strangenesses around retain=2 or if this is maybe
even a well-known problem with 5.5 or something. (Yes, I have
installed the patch for those color-bands ...) Or if there's just
something funny with my box.

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		Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Thu, 20 March 2003 10:22
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 26 March 2003 08:43
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: dmarino on Tue, 08 April 2003 07:00
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Fri, 25 April 2003 10:39
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 26 March 2003 03:48
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Mon, 07 April 2003 14:38

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