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From: ucacdik@ucl.ac.uk (Dimitris Kogias)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 with NetBSD 0.9exits with system messed up.
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Date: 23 Nov 93 21:43:04 GMT
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Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> writes:

>i've tried redirecting the output to a file -- doesn't change anything. 
>and yes, i can telnet to my machine and kill the shell -- which brings
>me back to the login prompt.

With my system, things appear to be slightly different.  Using the
startx script in the normal way (no redirection), my console exhibits
the same symptoms.  With an interesting quirk, though:  If, before
starting X, I have used the console (read a couple of man pages, use
an editor etc) then the problem disappears.

When I use redirection (startx >& /dev/null) the console
does not freeze up any more.  However, all is *not* OK:  After
exiting X, I try to read a manpage but instead I get:
TIOCGPGRP:  inappropriate ioctl for device

The system is NetBSD 0.9, running pccons and XFree 2.0.

Any help appreciated,

D.