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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!rivendel.lin.ufrj.br!nacao From: nacao@rivendel.lin.ufrj.br (Joao Paulo G. Nacao) Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 with NetBSD 0.9exits with system messed up. Message-ID: <ATGJBZ5U@math.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Nntp-Posting-Host: rivendel.lin.ufrj.br Organization: COPPE/UFRJ X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <1993Nov18.031132.21910@icaen.uiowa.edu> <CGp8qA.n42@dragon.dsh.org> <2cgout$g5d@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <CGqnGy.5vp@dragon.dsh.org> <EgwOsm_00VBN9RZVo5@andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Nov23.135211.121149@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 14:33:19 GMT Lines: 27 Dimitris Kogias (ucacdik@ucl.ac.uk) wrote: : 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. I dont try with redirection but the first time it freezes I loged in from telnet and noticed that the xinit is still running... My system runs NetBSD-current(Last Week), pccons and XFree2.0 nacao -- +---------- BEROM! ------------+----------------- Free 4.4BSD --------------+ | nacao@rivendel.lin.ufrj.br | | + |\ | +-- +--+ +-+ +-+ +-- | | nacao@alpha.coe.ufrj.br | | | | \ | | | | |-+ |-+ +- | | nacao@magma.leg.ufrj.br | +-- + | \| +-- +--+ | | +-- | +------------------------------+--- Any Opinion in this text are my own -----+