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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!thimm.dialup.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Repost: XFree86 problem on FreeBSD 2.2.1 Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 12:12:57 GMT Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3344ee67.101407@news.fu-berlin.de> References: <33404fd2.106602@news.fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de NNTP-Posting-Host: thimm.dialup.fu-berlin.de (160.45.217.207) X-Access: 16 17 19 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38407 I have already downloaded XFree twice and done lots of installs, but I cannot find where the problem is: startx and initx work well. Also if there exists a .xsession file with a call to twm X works. But when I start xdm from root and log into an account without a .xsession file, then xsm (called from xdm by default) gets a Segment Violation and drops a core dump. What am I doing wrong? I tried different kernels, even kernel.GENERIC which claims to support X besides SYSV stuff. I used the new setup tool form XFree, but this should not be the problem as X is working if called by hand (xinit, startx) Any help is very welcome, thanks, Axel. -- Axel Thimm thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de thimm@ifh.de