From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jul 8 14:15:04 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA26333 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 14:15:04 -0700 Received: from vegemite.Stanford.EDU (2842@vegemite.Stanford.EDU [36.159.0.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA26318 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 14:15:03 -0700 Received: (hlew@localhost) by vegemite.Stanford.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.4) id OAA06761; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 14:14:55 -0700 Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 14:14:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Joerg Wunsch cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: S3 Server dumps core In-Reply-To: <199507081116.NAA20058@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Jul 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > Yes, looks so. Strange, i've never seen a server dumping core. Hmmm... I could email you the core dump of 2 Megs if it would be helpful in debugging the problem. > The only reason when i've seen servers crashing has been LBX > incompatibilities. > > > > > 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. > > > > I don't know, but it's odd... It is almost like a timing problem, and is > > kind of random too... Sometimes xdm starts up with the xconsole okay. > > Sometimes it starts it up, and then closes the window. This is even true > > from a cold reset. > > But it does never happen for the second login under xdm control, > right? If the xconsole disappeared on cold boot at the xdm login screen, and I login as usual and then logout so that xdm login window comes back, the xconsole does usually start and stay on the screen, but not always. /--------------------------------------\ / Howard Lew \ < Email: hlew@genome.stanford.edu > \ http://www.shoppersnet.com / \--------------------------------------/