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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:25:07 +0100
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 Fails with signal 11 in FreeBSD 4.6 and 4.7
Message-ID:  <20021030102507.GM18364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <B9E4C9E6.EB5F%pscott@skycoast.us>
References:  <3DBF87FF.70503@owt.com> <B9E4C9E6.EB5F%pscott@skycoast.us>

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# pscott@skycoast.us / 2002-10-29 23:27:34 -0800:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> No. This is a BRAND-NEW install on a new partition using the FreeBSD 4.6 or
> FreeBSD 4.7 CDROM. 

    can you rule out hardware problems?
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#SIGNAL11

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