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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 with NetBSD 0.9exits with system messed up. Message-ID: <2cvhtf$f8s@Germany.EU.net> Date: 24 Nov 93 13:52:15 GMT Article-I.D.: Germany.2cvhtf$f8s References: <1993Nov18.031132.21910@icaen.uiowa.edu> <CGp8qA.n42@dragon.dsh.org> <2cgout$g5d@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <CGqnGy.5vp@dragon.dsh.org> <EgwOsm_00VBN9RZVo5@andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Nov23.135211.121149@ucl.ac.uk> Distribution: world Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <1993Nov23.135211.121149@ucl.ac.uk>, ucacdik@ucl.ac.uk (Dimitris Kogias) writes: |> When I use redirection (startx >& /dev/null) the console |> does not freeze up any more. However, all is *not* OK: After |> exiting X, I try to read a manpage but instead I get: |> TIOCGPGRP: inappropriate ioctl for device |> |> The system is NetBSD 0.9, running pccons and XFree 2.0. I'm running 386bsd-0.1/0.2.3/XFree86-1.3 and I, too, get the TIOCGPGRP: inappropriate ioctl for device except apart from some strange characters appearing in the keyboard buffer nothing bad happens, really. Iow the symptom is not a new one. Cheers, Bernard