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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:10:51 +1000 (EST)
From:      David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
To:        Manfred Antar <mantar@netcom.com>, peter@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net, (Bruce Evans) <bde@zeta.org.au>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject:   Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970422121641.davidn@usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970421174205.0093ed50@mantar.slip.netcom.com>

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On 22-Apr-97 Manfred Antar wrote:
 >There is a need to build a new libc to build a new mount, or to build
> >to include the vfork/pipe changes John Dyson made to libc.
> >
> I Did a make world Sunday with current sources and X doesn't work any more
> if i use a libc from last thurs (4/17/96) it works.kernel is also current
> although and old kernel doesn't make a difference.all seemed to work well
> till Sunday when i did make world from X and shut down.All i get is a
> X screen with nothing else.
>       Any ideas


Yes, the "pipe read" problem is back. I'm running a full make world
and kernel from yesterday and xrdb stalls in piperd. Perhaps Peter's
libc fix is better than Bruces after all? :-)

The reason you're getting ony the X screen is that your .xinitrc
hasn't completed. If you look at a process listing, you'll find
xrdb is stalled. If you're not using any preprocessor directives in
your .Xresources file, then add -nocpp to the invocation of xrdb
to avoid the stall. Of course, this is only a workaround.


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
Voice +61-3-9791-9547  Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507  3:632/348@fidonet
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