Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:53:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X still broken? Message-ID: <199704132353.TAA08279@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199704132337.TAA00472@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Apr 13, 97 07:37:49 pm"
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> ... The symptom is very simple: any attempt to start the X > server, whether through xdm or startx, puts the system in an infinite > loop where the server starts, and then immediately shuts down and > restarts, all the while locking up the keyboard so that one can't log > in to kill it. I can't recommend this due to the wtmp changes, but I'm now running the X binaries (server and client) off the 2.1.6 CDROM without any unexpected problems. I had the CDROM here and didn't want to suffer through a dialup speed download. I don't know if this gives you a clue or not. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936help
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