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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86 doesn't start
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.011348.10575@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Keywords: X11,386BSD
- Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <1992Dec12.085523.3828@aki.en.open.de>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:13:48 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Dec12.085523.3828@aki.en.open.de> aki!wegmann (Frank Wegmann) writes:
- >I'm posting this for a friend:
- >
- >I have problems running xfree86. When I try to run 'xinit' or 'X'
- >my screen switches to graphics mode, displays some random dots in
- >black and white and after a second or two I'll be back in text mode.
- >
- >Output of xinit >& err was:
- >
- >XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
- >(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- >Configured drivers:
- > VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- > et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- >VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
- >VGA256: clocks: 25 28 33 37 41 46 32 38 51 57 65 73 81 91 64 76
- >Caught signal 11. Server aborting
-
- The server is catching a SIGSEGV
-
- >XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
- > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
- > The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
- >
- >Trying to start X with 'X' I got the same but an additional line:
- >IOT trap (core dumped)
-
- After trapping the SIGSEGV, the server cleans up and then calls abort() which
- is producing that message (and the core).
-
- >I've rebuild the kernel with the patches and tested the
- >kernel included in the XFree86 package.
-
- Is the server running suid-root? Can you get a stack trace from the core
- with gdb and send the details?
-
- David
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