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From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
Subject: Re: current kernel + X11 = no way
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On 12-May-98 Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
>>>>>> 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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E-Mail: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
Date: 13-May-98
Time: 09:23:47

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I posted a mail a few days ago about this but with no answer.
Yesterday i recompiled XFree86 from ports answering no to any of the
auth-questions and it works now for me.

Werner


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