Subject: Re: Please Help: elm disappears from screen

From: [email-masked] (Babak Mohajerin)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 94 06:38:50 GMT

Hi,

Could some one please help us with our elm problem:

We are using elm version 2.4 Patch level 23 on a Sun sparc platform
running Solaris 2.3. It seems that elm occasionally disappears without
anyone terminating it or exiting from it. It just vanishes. There is a
message, however, appears on the screen about alarm clock problem. 

I will appreciate any help. 

with best regards

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From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 00:03:15 GMT

[email-masked] (Babak Mohajerin) writes:
>anyone terminating it or exiting from it. It just vanishes.

Elm "disappears"?
What do you mean?

1)  The window which showed Elm disappers.
2)  Elm disappears from the window which showed it, but the window now
    displays a shell (or whatever).
3)  Elm disappeared from the process list.
4)  Elm disappeared from the hard disk.
5)  I can't find the manuals.

>There is a message, however, appears on the screen about alarm clock problem. 

Huh?

Sven

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From: [email-masked] (Babak Mohajerin)
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 94 23:21:02 GMT

>From the above list 2 and 3 are the correct discription of the
problem. It is as if it has been terminated by a kill signal or
some one has ^C the elm menu. 

> >There is a message, however, appears on the screen about alarm clock problem. 

Would you care to elaborate please?

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From: [email-masked] (Syd Weinstein)
Date: 13 Nov 1994 20:33:21 -0500

>There is a message, however, appears on the screen about alarm clock problem. 

alarm clock is what appears when the alarm(x) system call is not
caught.  Elm posts an alarm, and its signal is what causes the screen
to refresh.  Alarm clock, followed by an exit means that the signal
handler was not configured correctly by the installer of Elm for your
system, and its not re-posting itself as the handler for the alarm
signal.   (IE: Its an installer's configure error.)  Using PL24,
this configuration option is not longer even used with the alarm
signal, so I'd say, upgrade to pl24.
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