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From: nacao@rivendel.lin.ufrj.br (Joao Paulo G. Nacao)
Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 with NetBSD 0.9exits with system messed up.
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 14:33:19 GMT
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Dimitris Kogias (ucacdik@ucl.ac.uk) wrote:

: With my system, things appear to be slightly different.  Using the
: startx script in the normal way (no redirection), my console exhibits
: the same symptoms.  With an interesting quirk, though:  If, before
: starting X, I have used the console (read a couple of man pages, use
: an editor etc) then the problem disappears.

: 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 dont try with redirection but the first time it freezes I loged in
from telnet and noticed that the xinit is still running...

	My system runs NetBSD-current(Last Week), pccons and XFree2.0

					nacao
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