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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:19:27 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 Fails with signal 11 in FreeBSD 4.6 and 4.7
Message-ID:  <3DBF87FF.70503@owt.com>
References:  <B9E4C5AB.EB57%pscott@skycoast.us>

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Paul A. Scott wrote:
> XFree86 exits on signal 11 immediately after starting on FreeBSD 4.6 and
> 4.7. It is not possible to run the graphical configuration utility at all.
> After running curses configuration utility, running startx produces signal
> 11. No other debugging information is available. No other messages from the
> server.
> 
> Note that X runs fine on FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, using the exact same
> machine and configuration.
> 
> When XFree86 moved to a combined server (beginning in FreeBSD 4.6),
> something broke. Earlier versions (on FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier) using
> individual X server modules worked fine.

Did you upgrade from 3.3.6 to 4.x, which is the default from 4.6 on. 
If you did, you have to rename or rm the 3.3.6 version of /etc/XF86Config.

> 
> Can anyone help me debug and resolve this problem? I've tried everything I
> can think of to no avail.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul A. Scott
> mailto:pscott@skycoast.us
> http://skycoast.us/pscott/
> 
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