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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xterm doesn't work on 2.1.7 but everything else does??
Date: 4 Mar 1997 11:35:34 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <331B5498.794B@ece.cmu.edu>,
Chris Inacio  <inacio@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>The title pretty much says it all.  I grabbed 2.1.7 from cdrom.com the
>other day and Xfree86 stable 2.1 to go with it.  I installed everything. 
>I can run X windows and twm and fvwm no problem.  I get xeyes, xconsole,
>some other X apps running just fine, but xterms DO NOT come up.  The
>only warning/error message I have to speak of is that my shared
>libraries may be old.  Does any one know if the shared libraries are the
>cause?  Does anyone know how to make this work?

Have you tried running an xterm as root?  Maybe you didn't install it
setuid.  Also, do you have 'options	"COMPAT_43"' in your kernel
configuration file?

rone
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