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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Chen Liu <chen@netcorps.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Xfree problems startup (too many symlinks)
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* Chen Liu <chen@netcorps.com> [000403 09:03] wrote:
> 
> HI, 
> 
> I got this message when I start "startx" after "make world" from 3.4 to 4.0.
> 
> Thanks!

Please use a descriptive subject line when posting...

> Script started on Mon Apr  3 00:02:52 2000
> > startx
> 
> 
> XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: August 23 1999

...

> (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles 
> (--) SVGA: XAA: Horizontal and vertical lines and segments
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open mouse (Too many levels of symbolic links)

ok, you did something silly with your mouse, whatever type of
symlink you have going, remove it and try again.

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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