Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:58:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: InfoSeeker <infoseek@bcoe.bm> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X server problems ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970916215652.4310X-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <341E7BD9.4BDA@bcoe.bm>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, InfoSeeker wrote: > 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? Not really. Might be an xmh bug. > 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? Reference ~applebaum/.xsession-errors for specific error output. Most likely, ~applebaum/.xsession doesn't exist or has wrong permissions; it should be at least user-executable. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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