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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!feeder.chicago.cic.net!ftpbox.mot.com!mothost.mot.com!lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com!supra.rsch.comm.mot.com!rittle From: rittle@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2.1, XFree86 3.2: XSM just croaks Date: 30 Apr 1997 21:06:08 GMT Organization: LMPS Research, Motorola Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5k8c80$4d3@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> References: <33673394.2781E494@rwwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: supra.comm.mot.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40079 In article <33673394.2781E494@rwwa.com>, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> wrote: >Logging into XDM with a user with no .xsession, the default is to >run xsm. But it just cores. Here is a sample from the log: > >/kernel: pid 178 (xsm), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > >Is this just broken, or is it me? Robert, Error checking and reporting appears to be a bit flawed in XSM under FreeBSD. The behavior you describe can happen when you have no proper entry for the machine in /etc/hosts. Even if you have no IP networking enabled for a machine, I have found that you must have an entry for the machine's hostname. It should map to the local loopback address: 127.0.0.1 your_machine_name_as_returned_by_the_hostname_command Regards, Loren -- Loren J. Rittle (rittle@comm.mot.com) PGP KeyIDs: 1024/B98B3249 2048/ADCE34A5 Systems Technology Research (IL02/2240) FP1024:6810D8AB3029874DD7065BC52067EAFD Motorola, Inc. FP2048:FDC0292446937F2A240BC07D42763672 (847) 576-7794 Call for verification of fingerprints.