From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 22:46:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04071 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx2.ews.uiuc.edu (mx2.ews.uiuc.edu [130.126.161.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04066 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pljohnsn@uiuc.edu) Received: from petedorm (isr3193.urh.uiuc.edu [130.126.64.183]) by mx2.ews.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA20720 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:46:10 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981112004611.00965100@ews.uiuc.edu> X-Sender: pljohnsn@ews.uiuc.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:46:11 -0600 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Peter Johnson Subject: XFree86 nonstandard server / ELF compat problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Note--this is _hopefully_ only a temporary problem (should be fixed when next version of XF86 comes out). Well, I finally was able to upgrade my system to ELF (yay). I love it, the only problem is that X causes some rather bizzare things with my system. I'm certain it's due to the fact that I'm using an a.out X server binary (which I can't update because no source will be available until XFree86 3.3.3). The X server worked perfectly before upgrading to ELF.. Amazingly, the server actually starts up and seems to run ok (window manager, xterm prompts start, etc), but I immediately am almost flooded by kernel messages "calcru: negative time of -48128 usec for pid 342 (xterm)" [with the time/pid/name changing]. Exiting the X server returns me to text mode prompt, but I continue getting the calcru messages. If I try to run top or do anything other than just list files, it seems, I get a nasty message "cputime limit exceeded". End up not being able to shutdown (because every process dies with a whole bunch of calcru messsages followed immediately by a cputime message) and need to reset. Ugh.. now I _need_ XF86 3.3.3 so I can compile the whole darn thing as ELF!! (note: I'm using the SuSe ELSA GLORIA server for FreeBSD 2.1.5--tried to use the Linux ELF binary, with no success) I got the same messages right after upgrading to ELF, so I recompiled/reinstalled the XFree86 port (compiling as ELF).. didn't fix it *sigh* Regards, Peter Johnson locke@mcs.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message