Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:16:08 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Dabrowski <chris@vader.org> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X still broken? Message-ID: <199704141316.OAA03676@tatooine.vader.org> In-Reply-To: <199704132337.TAA00472@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Apr 13, 97 07:37:49 pm"
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In a previous message, Garrett Wollman wrote: > Today was the day that I would finally get to test out a lot of > changes to the networking code that I had planned. However, when I > rebooted my machine, I found that X is still utterly broken. I don't > think that my changes are to blame, since they are not actually > functional, and in any case the rest of the machine appears to work > Just Fine(tm). The symptom is very simple: any attempt to start the X > server, whether through xdm or startx, puts the system in an infinite > loop where the server starts, and then immediately shuts down and > restarts, all the while locking up the keyboard so that one can't log > in to kill it. > Try changing the permissions of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc and ~/.xinitrc to 555. Some other people on this list (including myself) were having the same problem and this solution fixed it. Don't ask me why it works though. :-) Chris -- Chris Dabrowski chris@vader.org
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