Thank you. You've given me a few leads I've not pursued. I appreciate it! -Ken
Kenneth J. Kline
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>>> Neil Shephard <[email protected]> 7/8/2009 11:25 AM >>>
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM, KEN KLINE<[email protected]> wrote:
> We're having problems with complete Stata GUI crashes. We're running SUSE Linux SP1 64-bit and Stata-MP8.
>
> Using Putty/X-ming to connect to the server over SSH, highlighting text with the mouse in the "do editor" sometimes results in complete crashes of the Stata session (all windows close, connection with the server is lost). It happens typically once or twice per month for most users. It happens daily for myself.
>
> Using Hummingbird via Telnet or SSH, when running a Stata program, a complete GUI crash results every time before the program finishes and communication via SSH is very sluggish.
>
> PCs are Windows XP. Stata technical support, Exceed/Hummingbird technical support have not been able to get to the bottom of this (have done network traces as well). Any ideas????
>
Do you get the crashes when sat in front of the server itself?
If so that suggests its an aspect of the windowing system on the server.
Have you looked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for anything that may be
relevant (unlikely since most of its involved in the initiation of X
sessions, but worth checking on both the server and client side of
things).
Anything in the output of 'dmesg' thats relevant?
A third combination to try is Cygwin/X as providing local X windowing
system for the connection.
If none of this works, why not just ssh in and use the terminal based
version of Stata (although I have a vague recollection that generating
graphs in this manner can be problematic).
Nothing very specific I'm afraid, so likely not much help.
Neil
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