From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 02:02:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA00410 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 02:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from teligent.se (iservern.teligent.se [194.17.198.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA00379 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 02:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from datorn.teligent.se (datorn.teligent.se [192.168.2.31]) by teligent.se (8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA15001; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:58:20 +0200 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:53:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Jakob Alvermark To: "Daniel M. Eischen" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning: Select failed; error code 22 In-Reply-To: <199708221526.KAA16430@iworks.InterWorks.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA00399 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, 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. > > 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 > > I narrowed down the problem to a faulty real-time clock on the Sparcbook. > Sometimes it stops ticking (I can see this from Open Boot Prom) and that's > when everything gets weird (which is what you'd expect!). When the > clock starts ticking again, the above warning messages spew out. > > Gotta bad clock? After reading this, I think the clock is very likely the problem. I also get console messages saying "calcru: negative time: -xxxxxxxxxx usec". I will try with a new motherboard and se if it disappears. /Jakob Alvermark ------------------------------------------------------- Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nynäshamn, Sweden Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36 Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57