Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@cola155.scsn.net> To: bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recent vfork kernel changes broke csh & tcsh! Message-ID: <199704230124.VAA00229@cola155.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970421155758.317A-100000@pauling.salk.edu> from Tom Bartol at "Apr 21, 97 04:02:03 pm"
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> I just rebooted with the kernel and world I made after make update this > morning and am seeing similar problems. csh seg faults and X hangs at the > gray screen with mouse active but no windows or window manager. > > Tom Yeah, I'm getting this too. The X problem is caused by xrdb... Xrdb tries to pipe your .Xresources to cpp, but it hangs for unknown reasons, probably related to the popen/vfork changes. A temporary work-around is to change the lines in your .xinitrc that invoke xrdb -merge <wahtever> to xrdb -nocpp -merge <whatever>. -- Donald J. Maddox (dmaddox@scsn.net)
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