Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:46:11 -0600 From: Peter Johnson <pljohnsn@uiuc.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: XFree86 nonstandard server / ELF compat problem Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981112004611.00965100@ews.uiuc.edu>
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Note--this is _hopefully_ only a temporary problem (should be fixed when next version of XF86 comes out). Well, I finally was able to upgrade my system to ELF (yay). I love it, the only problem is that X causes some rather bizzare things with my system. I'm certain it's due to the fact that I'm using an a.out X server binary (which I can't update because no source will be available until XFree86 3.3.3). The X server worked perfectly before upgrading to ELF.. Amazingly, the server actually starts up and seems to run ok (window manager, xterm prompts start, etc), but I immediately am almost flooded by kernel messages "calcru: negative time of -48128 usec for pid 342 (xterm)" [with the time/pid/name changing]. Exiting the X server returns me to text mode prompt, but I continue getting the calcru messages. If I try to run top or do anything other than just list files, it seems, I get a nasty message "cputime limit exceeded". End up not being able to shutdown (because every process dies with a whole bunch of calcru messsages followed immediately by a cputime message) and need to reset. Ugh.. now I _need_ XF86 3.3.3 so I can compile the whole darn thing as ELF!! (note: I'm using the SuSe ELSA GLORIA server for FreeBSD 2.1.5--tried to use the Linux ELF binary, with no success) I got the same messages right after upgrading to ELF, so I recompiled/reinstalled the XFree86 port (compiling as ELF).. didn't fix it *sigh* Regards, Peter Johnson locke@mcs.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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