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From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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Subject: Re: current kernel + X11 = no way
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>>>>> John S Dyson writes:

 > Jean-Marc Zucconi said:
 >> This is with a kernel compiled with sources from yesterday (cvs-cur
 >> 4279 199805102308). The X server does not start and just says:
 >> xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed
 >> I run xdm, started from /etc/ttys.
 >> 
 > How does the system work without X?  I have made some changes, and
 > just want to make sure I haven't broken things worse.

The problem appeared between April, 29 and April 30. (I started with a
kernel from 04/23 and upgraded the sources with 1day increment until
the problem appears)
$ cvs diff -D"29 April 1998"  -D"30 April 1998" 2>/dev/null |grep ^RCS
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/SMP-GENERIC,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_map.c,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/pc98/conf/Makefile.pc98,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/pc98/i386/trap.c,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.h,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c,v
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_object.h,v

Note also that the problem is related to xdm rather than the Xserver,
because startx works.

Jean-Marc
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