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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Problems with xv-3.00a and a question.
Date: 5 Jan 1994 00:59:34 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <CJ3M5r.Cvp@news.direct.net> garbled@indirect.com () writes:
>I am running Netbsd 0.9 on a 386-40 (4 megs)  (makes you sick huh?)
>and am runing Xfree86 2.0.   I recently compiled xv3.00a from the sources
>and am having a strange problem with it.  It compiles fine.. with no
>warnings, nor errors..  But when run.. it simpy sits there..  does
>nothing.

Do a 'size' on the file.  Make sure there is enough memory for the image.
You may be stuck in the allocator routines in exec.

If you have built system call tracing (ther was a patch some time ago),
then you can 'trace xv' and see where it reall hangs (mostly).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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