From: hcc@sunvax.sun.ac.za
Subject: MOTIF windows die
Organization: University of Stellenbosch
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:48:29 GMT

Good day all netters

We'd _really_ appreciate any help.

We are experiencing a problem with our VAXstation 3100 Model 76
workstations running DECwindows Motif V1.0 and VMS V5.5-1. Sometimes,
when we resize a window, the window dissappears and the underlying
process dies.  We have managed to recreate the problem ( virtually
without fail ) by inverting a DECterm window, ie resizing the window
to a negative size by moving the bottom horizontal edge past the top of
the top horizontal edge. This impossible resizing does not work ( to be
expected ), but the DECterm process dies with the exact same message
that we get _sometimes_ when the window dissapppears after doing only a
normal valid resizing of the window. The DECTERM_ERROR.LOG file contains
the following message:

DECterm version V3.0 error occurred on Tue Nov  3 11:04:42 1992

Text of error message:

%XLIB-ERROREVENT

Mapped Images...

    BASE    START      END    LENGTH IMAGE NAME
    ----    -----      ---    ------ ----------
     200      200    11fff     11dff DECW$TERMINAL
  253c00   253c00   2835ff     2f9ff DECW$TERMINALSHR
  1db400   1db400   24b3ff     6ffff DECW$DXMLIBSHR
  24b400   24b400   253bff      87ff LBRSHR
   d7000    d7000   1a59ff     ce9ff DECW$XMLIBSHR
  1ada00   1ada00   1db3ff     2d9ff DECW$XTSHR
  1a5a00   1a5a00   1ad9ff      7fff DECW$DWTLIBSHR
   7e000    7e000    d29ff     549ff DECW$XLIBSHR
   d2a00    d2a00    d6fff      45ff DECW$TRANSPORT_COMMON
   3c400    3c400    53fff     17bff VAXCRTL
   54000    54000    7dfff     29fff MTHRTL
   3ba00    3ba00    3c3ff       9ff PTD$SERVICES_SHR
   1c400    1c400    223ff      5fff SECURESHR
   22400    22400    3b9ff     195ff LIBRTL
   12000    12000    1c3ff      a3ff SECURESHRP
  2c4600   2c4600   2c63ff      1dff DECW$TRANSPORT_LOCAL
  371000   371000   3717ff       7ff DECW$TERMINALMSG
  371800   371800   3725ff       dff VAXCMSG
  372600   372600   372bff       5ff DECW$XLIBMSG
  372c00   372c00   3739ff       dff DECW$TRANSPORTMSG

IMAGE+offset of call
--------------------
DECW$XLIBSHR+26bb4       2bb290, 7ff7d991
DECW$XLIBSHR+26c39       2bb290, 7ff7d9dc
DECW$XLIBSHR+2847b       2bb290, 7ff7da98
DECW$XLIBSHR+278f3       2bb290, 7ff7db04, 0, 1
DECW$XLIBSHR+16bc8       2bb290, 258051, 0
DECW$TERMINALSHR+206d5   30d020
DECW$TERMINALSHR+1b5db   30d020
DECW$XTSHR+2032b         30d020, 0, 7d, 7c, ffe2, 0
DECW$XMLIBSHR+a3ad9      30d020, 0, 7d, 7c, ffe2, 0
DECW$XMLIBSHR+84ce5      2c3b18
DECW$XMLIBSHR+858e8      2c3b18
DECW$XMLIBSHR+7325b      2c3b18
DECW$XTSHR+20226         2c3b18, 7c, 5f, 0
DECW$XMLIBSHR+9e523      2e41d0
DECW$XMLIBSHR+3477a      2e41d0, 2e5c08, 7ff7e34c, 7ff7def3
DECW$XTSHR+186fe         7ff7e34c, 2e41d0, a0000, 2bc944
DECW$XTSHR+18d3b         7ff7e34c
DECW$XTSHR+18ef3         7ff7e34c
DECW$XTSHR+19ea3         2ba008, 7
DECW$TERMINAL+81fc       1, 284e40, 284e10
802630ce                 7ffe5ebc, 0, 3000b0, 580044, a80000, 35303230, 102,
                            ffffffff, ffffffff

End of DECTERM_ERROR.LOG message.

The DECW$TERMINAL and DECW$TERMINALSHR images were linked on 17-JUL-1991,
all other DECW$ images were linked on 01-JUL-1991.  The images are all
version DW V1.0-910630 (from the image file).

Hardware version info:   VS3100-M76  VS43A-BD

   sho ver>  KA43A  V1.20C-185-V1.6-26A
              PST:  185
              CON:  20c
              VMB:  V1.6
              ROM:  26A
   when booting sys .... KA43A V1.2
   KA43A firmware = 2.3-134E8
                    2.3-135E8

If this is a known bug, please let me know.  Also if there are patches
available or any workarounds.

Thanks

J.A.Nel
HCC

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