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We have an RS/6000 Model 7028-6C4 that is being used with an IBM3153
terminal, no X-Windows or lft device attached.

When we look at the error report in the system, we were noticing the
following errors:

E85C5C4C 0215150906 P S KBDDD SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR
E85C5C4C 0215150906 P S LFTDD SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR
E85C5C4C 0215150906 P S LFTDD SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR

We figured out that this was coming from the lft0 defined on the system
and so as a temporary fix we removed the device lft0. However, after
that we started getting core dumps reported:

B6048838 0215151006 P S SYSPROC SOFTWARE PROGRAM ABNORMALLY
TERMINATED

We were able to figure out that this is coming up from the X-Windows
program that is trying to constantly start:

strings core |grep _=
_=/usr/lpp/X11/bin/X

However, we are not sure what we can do to stop the messages. We read
in usenet that you can try to remove the graphics driver
(devices.graphics.com) but we get an error when we try to uninstall
this fileset...and it does not report why - no dependent software,
nada.

Anyone have any idea how to prevent the X-Windows from trying to
activate like this and producing errors in errpt every minute?

Thx.

Steve

Further to our review, I tried to disable the "Resuming Desktop Login"
to see if that made a difference. Shut down the dtlogin process,
commented out the entry in Xservers, and errors LFTDD and KBDDD were
still showing up.

steven_nospam at Yahoo! Canada wrote:
> Further to our review, I tried to disable the "Resuming Desktop Login"
> to see if that made a difference. Shut down the dtlogin process,
> commented out the entry in Xservers, and errors LFTDD and KBDDD were
> still showing up.

I guess that your maschine is starting X from /etc/inittab. Look
if you have lines similar to

dt:2:wait:/etc/rc.dt

or more unlikely:

xdm:2nce:/usr/bin/X11/xdm

in your /etc/inittab file and comment it out by placing
a : (colon) before that line.

GG

Hi Gerhard,

I checked and the following two lines were present in the inittab:

dt_nogb:2:wait:/etc/rc.dt
lft0:2:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty /dev/lft0

Removing just rc.dt entry did not resolve the errors. I removed both
entries as we do not use X-Windows on this system and do not have an
lft device. It looks like that stopped the errors from coming up. We
shall see what happens next reboot if the lft0 is back in inittab and
respawning.

Thanks for the help.

Steve