From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 01:21:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA07918 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 01:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA07912 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 01:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22941; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:50:56 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA01178; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:50:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980326195055.01704@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:50:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White , Ashley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bus error! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 11:56:00PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 March 1998 at 23:56:00 -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ashley wrote: > >> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: >>>> yesterday i compiled and installed enlightenment. while in enlightenment i >>>> was using netscape, and then all of a sudden my system hung, requiring a >>>> reboot. now when i try to run X using enlightenment as my WM i get a bus >>>> error, signal 10. >>>> >>>> i tried recompiling all the libraries it uses, and E itself. i also >>>> did a make world, reinstalled Xfree86 and now i have no idea what to do. >>> >>> What is identified as crashing in the system log? >> >> in /var/log/messages this is what it says... >> >> Mar 21 03:33:36 quasar /kernel: pid 19809 (communicator-4.0), uid 1000: >> exited on signal 10 (core dumped) >> >> and then everytime after that when i tried to run enlightenment i get >> this: >> >> Mar 21 03:53:28 quasar /kernel: pid 174 (enlightenment), uid 1000: exited >> on signal 10 (core dumped) > > Hm... > >> this was not happening before the Netscape signal 10 above. :( >> >> any help appreciated :) > > Try reinstalling X from scratch, I guess: > > rm -rf /usr/X11R6 Sorry, I disagree strongly with this approach. enlightenment isn't X, and there's no reason to believe that the problem is with X. On the other hand, I *have* heard of problems with enlightenment, and that's what the messages are saying. I'd suggest backing out enlightenment and trying a different window manager to see if the problems still occur. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message