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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 03:10:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Andrew V. Fomenkov" <fav@prbank.msk.su>
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Subject: Re: system crash when starting X server (fwd)
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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Andrew V. Fomenkov wrote:

> Help me, my system crashes with message 'Page fault while in kernel
> mode' when I'm starting X server (S3; video card Diamond Stealth64
> 2121,X server version 3.3.2 ; FreeBSD version 2.2.1).
> I'm using Afterstep 1.4.5 window manager, and it is current process when
> system crashes. I'm starting X server as root.
> I have enought swap space ( 2 swap partitions : 25M+27M) and enought
> free disk space ('df' reports more than 18MB free)
> Problem does not apper when I use 'olvwm','fvwm2','fvwn95' window
> managers, and in this case about 60% of swap space free when X server
> and applications specified in 'xinitrc' loaded.
> What can you suggest me?

We need to see the entire panic output.  If you can reproduce it, a
backtrace from a crash dump would be quite helpful.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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