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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: problem starting XFree86
Message-ID: <C5EyCG.AFo@veda.is>
Date: 13 Apr 93 08:31:27 GMT
References: <1993Apr13.054741.5091@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes:

>	And an attempt was made (by the system) to kill server, but failed
>with signal 3 intercepted. So what I end up is just a blank screen hanging
>up the system. Also, the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE does not kill the server anyay,
>even when I have got DontZap commented out in Xconfig.

I just spent half a day rebooting over and over, until I discovered that
the server hangs forever until it receives input from the mouse. Wiggle
the mouse while it is hanging, and it should start normally.

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Adam D. (adam@veda.is)