problem with dxnotepad on RISC ULTRIX 4.0

[Joel Gringorten]

In article <18203 at thorin.cs.unc.edu>, chungg at cleveland.cs.unc.edu (Goopeel Chung) writes:
|> We have encountered a strange problem with the dxnotepad program.
|> One of our users was working on a monochrome DECstation 3100 running
|> 4.0.  The user entered the program, selected Customize, and selected
|> Font.  Then he chose the "Open Look Cursor" font family, chose a size,
|> and chose the font called "Proportional sunolcursor-1."
|> 
|> The entire login session was then immediately terminated, and the
|> Digital login window came up.  This is repeatable.
|> 
|> Does anyone out there have a fix for this?  Is it mentioned in
|> the release notes for 4.0 (we did not receive a copy)?

What you're experiencing here sounds like the server crashing and restarting. 
Server crashes are bad and shouldn't happen no matter what weird things people
try. I must say however, this does seem a litte unusual. You're asking the 
server to use a Sun Open Look Cursor Font as a text font.  Interesting. If you 
feel strongly about this you could certainly file an SPR.  

No, I don't believe it was in the release notes and I doubt that anyone has
a fix for it.

-joel  (definitely not speaking officially for DEC.)