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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86 doesn't start Message-ID: <1992Dec14.011348.10575@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Keywords: X11,386BSD Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <1992Dec12.085523.3828@aki.en.open.de> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:13:48 GMT Lines: 42 In article <1992Dec12.085523.3828@aki.en.open.de> aki!wegmann (Frank Wegmann) writes: >I'm posting this for a friend: > >I have problems running xfree86. When I try to run 'xinit' or 'X' >my screen switches to graphics mode, displays some random dots in >black and white and after a second or two I'll be back in text mode. > >Output of xinit >& err was: > >XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System >(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) >Configured drivers: > VGA256 (256 colour SVGA): > et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900 >VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16) >VGA256: clocks: 25 28 33 37 41 46 32 38 51 57 65 73 81 91 64 76 >Caught signal 11. Server aborting The server is catching a SIGSEGV >XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient. > >Trying to start X with 'X' I got the same but an additional line: >IOT trap (core dumped) After trapping the SIGSEGV, the server cleans up and then calls abort() which is producing that message (and the core). >I've rebuild the kernel with the patches and tested the >kernel included in the XFree86 package. Is the server running suid-root? Can you get a stack trace from the core with gdb and send the details? David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------