From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Oct 29 23:27:39 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA6637B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:27:38 -0800 (PST)
Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32F543E77
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:27:37 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us)
Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249])
	by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA35658;
	Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:27:35 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us)
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:27:34 -0800
Subject: Re: XFree86 Fails with signal 11 in FreeBSD 4.6 and 4.7
From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <B9E4C9E6.EB5F%pscott@skycoast.us>
In-Reply-To: <3DBF87FF.70503@owt.com>
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

>> XFree86 exits on signal 11 immediately after starting on FreeBSD 4.6 and
>> 4.7. It is not possible to run the graphical configuration utility at all.
>> After running curses configuration utility, running startx produces signal
>> 11. No other debugging information is available. No other messages from the
>> server.
>> 
>> Note that X runs fine on FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, using the exact same
>> machine and configuration.
> 
> Did you upgrade from 3.3.6 to 4.x, which is the default from 4.6 on.
> If you did, you have to rename or rm the 3.3.6 version of /etc/XF86Config.

No. This is a BRAND-NEW install on a new partition using the FreeBSD 4.6 or
FreeBSD 4.7 CDROM. 

Paul A. Scott
mailto:pscott@skycoast.us
http://skycoast.us/pscott/


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message