From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 05:36:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA21496 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 05:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bcewww.bcoe.bm (www.bcoe.bm [199.172.226.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA21491 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 05:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bces1 ([192.9.200.1]) by bcewww.bcoe.bm (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA12020 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:32:24 -0300 Message-ID: <341E7BD9.4BDA@bcoe.bm> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:30:17 -0300 From: InfoSeeker X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X server problems ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all! i just installed freeBSD for the first time on a Dell OptiPlex GXi (Pentium) box. things went smoothly but now when i try to run xmh it exits (halfway through starting - i don't get any windows) with a "Error: cannot perform realloc" any suggestions as to where i could look for problems? also xdm is behaving very poorly and when invoked as a deamon from the command line merely "cycles" when you try and log in. so if user applebaum logs in successfully, xdm starts doing something (what i don't know) it seems like the server actually exits (the screen goes black, clicking hardware noises in the monitor) and whamo there is the login screen again. uh ideas on that one? should i merely reinstall x-windows system? ian