From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 7 21:24:05 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA07318 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 21:24:05 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA07280 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 21:24:01 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA06828; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 06:23:59 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA23940; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 06:23:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA15935; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 00:00:41 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507072200.AAA15935@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: S3 Server dumps core To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 00:00:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Howard Lew" at Jul 7, 95 02:13:33 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 946 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Howard Lew wrote: > > I'm using 2.0.5-Snap 6/22, and the S3 still dumps core if and only if I > do this: > > 1) Switch from xdm to a text screen. > 2) Login as root. It immediately dumps core after I login as root. > If I login as someone else, it doesn't dump core unless I use su to > get to root. After it dumps core, it flips to the graphics screen, and > the X server starts up again. Can you send us root's .cshrc and .login file? > One other problem.... In the login window, Xconsole sometimes appears and > then closes by itself. I have seen this happen on a 386-40, and also > this 486-100. I've also seen this, in particular for the first time xdm is being started after a system boot. Seems to be related to the permissions of the console device or something else. Benign. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)