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List:       sun-managers
Subject:    SUMMARY:  CDE Perfmeter
From:       chopewel () redwood ! dn ! hac ! com (Craig C !  Hopewell)
Date:       1998-02-27 22:37:21
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The original question was:
>         We have a SUN Ultra1-140 running Solaris 2.5.1 (and Recommended
>         Patch Cluster) with CDE.
> 
>         When the primary user of the system attempts to bring up
>         "perfmeter" from the window manager menu, it pops up only
>         briefly (just long enough to see it) and dies.  It had been
>         working, and of course, the user purports to have changed nothing.
> 
>         When root is the login account, "perfmeter" works fine.

Responses may be summarized as:

	- Look for a "dot" file causing havoc.  (It is something in the .cshrc, 
	but we have not determined what.)

	- Check other user accounts.  (Others work fine, so we recreated the
	problem account with a new .cshrc and it works. We will add items to 
	it until it fails or it is complete.)

	- Use command line "perfmeter" with "truss".  "truss perfmeter" fails
	with:

		ioctl(3, FIONREAD, 0xEFFFD864)
			Incurred fault #6 FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0x6FD4E268
			  siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000
			Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
			  siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000
				*** process killed ***
	Obviously an error condition, but I don't know what it is.

Thanks to all who responded with suggestions!

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Craig C. Hopewell
Unix Systems Administrator
Raytheon Systems Company
(303) 739-5015
chopewel@redwood.dn.hac.com
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