From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 9 07:59:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA28617 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 07:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA28564 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 07:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA00344; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 16:58:14 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA25239; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 16:58:14 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA27010; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:02:03 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512091402.PAA27010@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: fontserver looping: why? To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:02:02 +0100 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512042242.XAA01998@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Dec 4, 95 11:42:38 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I just got my newly obtained NCD Xterminal working. I currently use it with > the X fontserver (xfs). > > For some reason xfs decides to get into a tight loop: > > 1839 p0- R 21:07.17 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs -config /usr/local/etc/xfs.conf -po The font server is rather fragile. Which version of X11R6 are you running? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)