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From: mwilley@pcocd2.intel.com (Mark Willey - PCD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: NetBSD & XFree88: exiting X, no shell present
Date: 11 Feb 1994 22:34:35 GMT
Organization: Intel
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Sender: mwilley@frx198 (Mark Willey - PCD)
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All,

I use NetBSD 0.9 on a Gateway 486-66, Phoenix Bios, ATI GUP 2mb graphics card.
I have only one problem with my setup:  When I exit X, the console returns to
the text mode, but it does not appear to have a shell attached to it.  I can
enter characters, ^C, etc, but it simply echoes them to the screen and does
nothing else.  I use startx to begin X, have my console on in /etc/ttys and
am not using xdm.  The only way I can exit w/o a hard reset is to (from X)
kill my login shell.  It then logs me out and getty grabs the console again.
Should I perhaps "exec" the last command in my .xinitrc file (mwm)?  Thanks for
your help!

Mark

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