From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 21:04:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA09811 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 21:04:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mta1.gte.net (mta1.gte.net [207.115.153.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA09771 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 21:04:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phbrown@gte.net) Received: from smtp2.mailsrvcs.net ([192.168.129.31]) by mta1.gte.net (Intermail v3.1 117 223) with ESMTP id <19971104050721.QTBJ1133@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:07:21 -0600 Received: from pb486 (1Cust94.tnt1.redondo-beach.ca.da.uu.net [208.254.140.94]) by smtp2.mailsrvcs.net with SMTP id XAA14853 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:07:19 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <345EAD68.262@gte.net> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 21:06:48 -0800 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: support@freebsd.org Subject: Cleaning up wierd system messages to root Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This could conceivably (that doesn't look right!) be an XFree86 question, but I don't think so. When I bring FreeBSD up, I usually login as root on console 1, then as a regular user on console 2 () and use the system there without worrying about a global wipeout. Also, just to monitor the efficiency of the system, I usually run systat -vmstat as root. Anyway, after using startx to use X-windows as a regular user, error messages something like "/kernel: cmd XF86-SVGA --- tried to use non-present SYSVSHM" show up on root's screen. That blow's systat's whole screen (ok, no biggie) but I'm enough of a perfectionist to want to know what's wrong. SYSVSHM refers to System V Shared Memory, I guess. I think this only happens with my reconfigured kernel, and I know of nothing that I've omitted there. Please give jme some suggestions where to look so I can clean my system up.