From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 22 11:10:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA23322 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from codie04.ops.aol.com (codie04.ops.aol.com [152.163.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA23317 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from codie04.ops.aol.com by codie04.ops.aol.com with SMTP (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA29496; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:19:18 -0400 Message-Id: <33FDCA16.30B@dc.infi.net> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:19:18 -0400 From: Ron Steele X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.04 9000/887) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning: Select failed; error code 22 References: <199708221526.KAA16430@iworks.InterWorks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > > I'm having trouble with certain X-programs. I can start the program, for > > example xemacs, and run it for a few seconds, then it hangs and the > > terminal I started it from is full with lines of "Warning: Select failed; > > error code 22". I have to kill them. > > This is *very annoying*. > > > > Anyone that knows about this problem? I've tried switching to another > > window manager without luck. > > That's very interesting. I've experienced the same exact thing but > under Solaris 2.5 and CDE on an RDI Sparcbook. The windows seem to > lock (as if NUM lock were on in Xfree) and the mouse buttons don't > work correctly. Sometimes everything will return to normal and > I'll get a few tens of messages saying the same thing: > > Warning: Select failed; error code 22 > And I have seen the same thing under HP-UX versions 9.xx and 10.xx. It only happened, or at least was ony apparent while running xemacs. With a different version of xemacs the problem went away. I've never seen this under FreeBSD. Ron Steele