From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 00:13:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12788 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:13:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA12783 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:13:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01806; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:13:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:13:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Nate Johnson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86/FreeBSD-2.2R Problem In-Reply-To: <199703170302.WAA18124@basara.eos.ncsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id AAA12784 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Nate Johnson wrote: > Hello, all. > > I've stumbled upon a little bit of a problem with my FreeBSD box. It seems > that the latest 2.2R doesn't interact as well with XF86/3.2 as well as it > should. > > When I'm running X, w reports something similar to the following: > 9:57PM up 8 mins, 5 users, load averages: 0.22, 0.10, 0.03 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > nsj v1 - 9:49PM 1 xinit /users/nsj/.xinitrc -- > nsj v2 - 9:51PM 1 -tcsh (tcsh) > nsj p0 :0.0 9:56PM - -csh (tcsh) > 1 - 31Dec69 7 - > β,3ttyp 2 31Dec69 7 - > > Something about my being logged on since before I was born seems a little > wrong. =) > > Is this a bug worthy of reporting or something that's already known about? My > 2.2-SNAP box (this one, in fact--about six hours ago) didn't exhibit this > behaviour. It looks like some 3.0-CURRENT bits of X got sent with 2.2. Your utmp file is probably corrupted now. It shouldn't cause any major problems, but you will need to downgrade your X to a 2.2-RELEASE era build. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major