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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: startXF errors
Date: 11 Sep 1995 12:22:41 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>I can bring up X using "X"
>
>but startx brings up a screen then aborts with
>
>MIT-SHM extentions disabled due to lack of kernel support
>
>and this it just aborts
>
>with "waiting for X server to shut down"
You missed the actual error message. Redirect your stderr ( >& in the
csh, 2> in Bourne shell), and look carefully at the output.
The MITSHM is actually a warning only, the "waiting..." is a
subsequent message from the server aborting due to earlier errors.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)