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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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  
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