From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 11:56:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A06537B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4847543E72 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id AC9DE4FC8A; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44F24A0D for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:55:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2.0 core dumps on exit In-Reply-To: <3D59D89F.8080308@mchsi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, 6XGate wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:12:15 -0500 > From: 6XGate > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: XFree86 4.2.0 core dumps on exit > > When I exit X Window regaurdless of the desktop or program. XFree86 > always core dumps. The following log file is from using the default set > of X startup clients (twm, 3 xterms, and xclock). This log file also > reflects what I see on screen after exiting. This does get anoying > having to delete core dumps after leaving X. > > ----- Log File ----- > > XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) > Release Date: 18 January 2002 > (WW) fcntl(6, F_SETOWN): Inappropriate ioctl for device From the fcntl(2) man page: F_SETOWN Set the process or process group to receive SIGIO and SIGURG signals; process groups are specified by supplying arg as neg­ ative, otherwise arg is interpreted as a process ID. Perhaps the owner/group of the X binaries isn't exactly correct? Just a shot in the dark. /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message