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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 1998 15:02:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
Cc:        kline@thought.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: X11 problem?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980602150256.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806012148.OAA03520@athena.tera.com>

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Maybe /etc/login.conf bites you.

> Warning: Cannot convert string "True    " to type Boolean
> Warning: Cannot convert string "True    " to type Boolean
> Warning: Cannot convert string "True    " to type Boolean

Here you have a Xresources-problem
Have a look into ~/.Xresources

Malte
On 01-Jun-98 Gary Kline wrote:
> 
>   Late last week after upgrading my P90 box to 2.2.6 I began running
>   into problems with netscape, chimera, and mosaic.  --But not, strangely,
>   the w3 browser in XEmacs.
> 
>   When trying to read certain web pages the entire window manager 
>   would crash and after several moments I'd be looking at a new xdm
>   login screen.  
> 
>   This invariably happened when I tried to read my HTML-3.2 pages.  
>   Either locally, on my system, or out of the net.  I would have 
>   suspected that ``bad-HTML'' crashed my browsers except that bother
>   netscape-4.0.5 and chimera running on my new 6x86 platform did not
>   crash.  On that console, no problem.
> 
>   There are two things that seem likely: 1, something in my P90 
>   environment is improperly set up.  I can't imagine what; I've
>   narrowed it down to virtually zero.  Or 2, the XF86_W32 driver
>   is buggy (or buggy in conjunction with the rest of v3.3.2.  I've
>   got an old Tseng-4000 chip in my videocard in the P90, and a Matrox
>   Millennium (XF86_SVGA).  The Matrox driver may be good; the other
>   not.
> 
>   A third possibility is that when I upgraded from 2.2.5, something
>   got fouled up; but this is reaching.
> 
>   Below is some output captured when I was running from xinit---yes,
>   things bomb there, too; not just from xdm.  
> 
>   Ideas, people???
> 
>   thanks,
> 
>   gary kline
> 
>   PS: Please copy me with any feedback.  Mail//network//sendmail problems
>   are keeping me shut off from the `real-world'! --gdk
> 
> 
>   encl:
> 
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string "True    " to type Boolean
> Warning: Cannot convert string "True    " to type Boolean
> Warning: Cannot convert string "True    " to type Boolean
> May 29 14:31:07 tao communicator-4.05.bin: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument
> May 29 14:31:07 tao communicator-4.05.bin: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument
> May 29 14:31:07 tao communicator-4.05.bin: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> 
> When reporting a problem relating to a server crash; please send
> the full server problem, not just the last messages
> 
> W32 Accelerator:  WAIT_ACL timeout.  Skipped.
> May 29 14:37:18 tao /kernel : pid 433 (XF86_W32), uid 0: exited on signal 6
> (cor
> e dumped)
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
> xinit: connection to X server lost
> 
> 
> 
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Date: 02-Jun-98
Time: 14:58:55
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