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From: larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: startXF errors
Date: 9 Sep 1995 10:45:59 -0400
Organization: Larry's ISDN News Server at Home
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I can bring up X using "X"

but startx brings up a screen then aborts with

MIT-SHM extentions disabled due to lack of kernel support

and this it just aborts

with "waiting for X server to shut down"