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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 1995 00:00:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew)
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: S3 Server dumps core
Message-ID:  <199507072200.AAA15935@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950707140748.13488C-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU> from "Howard Lew" at Jul 7, 95 02:13:33 pm

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As Howard Lew wrote:
> 
> I'm using 2.0.5-Snap 6/22, and the S3 still dumps core if and only if I 
> do this:
> 
> 1) Switch from xdm to a text screen.
> 2) Login as root.  It immediately dumps core after I login as root.
> If I login as someone else, it doesn't dump core unless I use su to 
> get to root.  After it dumps core, it flips to the graphics screen, and 
> the X server starts up again.

Can you send us root's .cshrc and .login file?

> One other problem.... In the login window, Xconsole sometimes appears and 
> then closes by itself.  I have seen this happen on a 386-40, and also 
> this 486-100.

I've also seen this, in particular for the first time xdm is being
started after a system boot.  Seems to be related to the permissions
of the console device or something else.  Benign.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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