From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 13 17:05:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02340 for current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 17:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [207.198.1.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02335 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 17:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08279; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:53:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199704132353.TAA08279@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: X still broken? In-Reply-To: <199704132337.TAA00472@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Apr 13, 97 07:37:49 pm" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:53:32 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ... 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 6936