Subject: potato -"heyho!" message? Date: Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:43:28PM +0900
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I upgraded from hamm to potato yesterday without any trouble, however after > the upgrade was completed, I noticed a strange problem. > > I had several Eterms open when the message "heyho!" (followed by a newline > character) started to be repeatedly printed on one of them. The keyboard did > not seem to have any effect (even CTRL-C) and the only way to stop the > message from being repeated was to close the Eterm window. > > That was the second time that this problem occurred. The first time I didn't > take much notice of it, so I'm not sure whether it appeared on an xterm or > an Eterm. > > The second time, the problem occurred, I tried "ps -a" on another terminal > while the message was being printed, but I didn't notice anything out of the > ordinary. > > Has anybody else experienced this? Does anyone know what it is? > > Anthony I can offer a thought. Did you load any packages to use X10 devices? Maybe xtend? If so there is a package called 'heyu' which is used to talk to an X10 controller. That 'might' be what you are seeing. HTH -- A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>