Patch Name: PHSS_12188 Patch Description: s700_800 10.10 X11R6 font server Aug97 periodic patch Creation Date: 97/08/26 Post Date: 97/08/28 Repost: 97/12/03 PHSS_12188 did not document that is supersedes PHSS_10403. The patch documentation was modified to include this information. In addition, the patch control scripts were modified to work correctly if PHSS_10403 is present when PHSS_12188 is installed. Hardware Platforms - OS Releases: s700: 10.10 s800: 10.10 Products: N/A Filesets: X11.X11-FONTSRV Automatic Reboot?: No Status: General Release Critical: No Path Name: /hp-ux_patches/s700_800/10.X/PHSS_12188 Symptoms: PHSS_12188: xfs init.d script kills itself at shutdown. PHSS_10907: Font server goes into infinite loop when 33rd client connects. PHSS_10403: Font server can't handle more than 15 clients; should clone itself. Defect Description: PHSS_12188: The xfs init.d script attempts to kill xfs at shutdown but it also kills itself. PHSS_10907: An error in the font server code caused the font server to go into an infinite loop when the 33rd client connected, overwriting memory until a core dump occurred. PHSS_10403: After a specific number of connections (setable using the client-limit configuration parameter) the font server spawns off a new process which will listen on the socket for new connections. The old process will service the connections it has until they are all closed and then die. In going from R5 to R6 the X Consortium changed the default port number from 7000 to 7100. HP continued to use 7000 as the port number set when starting the process at boot time, since to change this would force customers to change the font paths of the font clients. Consequently, HP's R6 font server is not run at the default port number and this causes the problem to be seen. HP's font server is an R6 font server on systems beginning with 10.10. SR: 1653170092 1653213223 Patch Files: /usr/bin/X11/xfs /sbin/init.d/xfs what(1) Output: /usr/bin/X11/xfs: xfs: $Revision: 1.1 $ X Window System, Version 11 R6+ HP-UX B.10.10.00 Mar 1997 Point Patch C Release (build date: Fri Apr 25 16:59:45 PDT 1997) /sbin/init.d/xfs: None cksum(1) Output: 2332828781 143360 /usr/bin/X11/xfs 581244834 1015 /sbin/init.d/xfs Patch Conflicts: None Patch Dependencies: None Hardware Dependencies: None Other Dependencies: None Supersedes: PHSS_10403 PHSS_10907 Equivalent Patches: PHSS_11273: s700: 10.20 s800: 10.20 Patch Package Size: 200 KBytes Installation Instructions: Please review all instructions and the Hewlett-Packard SupportLine User Guide or your Hewlett-Packard support terms and conditions for precautions, scope of license, restrictions, and, limitation of liability and warranties, before installing this patch. ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Back up your system before installing a patch. 2. Login as root. 3. Copy the patch to the /tmp directory. 4. Move to the /tmp directory and unshar the patch: cd /tmp sh PHSS_12188 5a. For a standalone system, run swinstall to install the patch: swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x match_target=true \ -s /tmp/PHSS_12188.depot 5b. For a homogeneous NFS Diskless cluster run swcluster on the server to install the patch on the server and the clients: swcluster -i -b This will invoke swcluster in the interactive mode and force all clients to be shut down. WARNING: All cluster clients must be shut down prior to the patch installation. Installing the patch while the clients are booted is unsupported and can lead to serious problems. The swcluster command will invoke an swinstall session in which you must specify: alternate root path - default is /export/shared_root/OS_700 source depot path - /tmp/PHSS_12188.depot To complete the installation, select the patch by choosing "Actions -> Match What Target Has" and then "Actions -> Install" from the Menubar. 5c. For a heterogeneous NFS Diskless cluster: - run swinstall on the server as in step 5a to install the patch on the cluster server. - run swcluster on the server as in step 5b to install the patch on the cluster clients. By default swinstall will archive the original software in /var/adm/sw/patch/PHSS_12188. If you do not wish to retain a copy of the original software, you can create an empty file named /var/adm/sw/patch/PATCH_NOSAVE. Warning: If this file exists when a patch is installed, the patch cannot be deinstalled. Please be careful when using this feature. It is recommended that you move the PHSS_12188.text file to /var/adm/sw/patch for future reference. To put this patch on a magnetic tape and install from the tape drive, use the command: dd if=/tmp/PHSS_12188.depot of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2k Special Installation Instructions: None