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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: problem starting XFree86 Message-ID: <1qqoq8$2207@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: 18 Apr 93 05:26:32 GMT References: <1993Apr13.054741.5091@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <C5EyCG.AFo@veda.is> Organization: dis Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <C5EyCG.AFo@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: > > 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. Have you applied a patchkit and forgotten to update your mouse driver for the new select() mechanism? This is exactly the symptom I would expect (and experienced). -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!