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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stock FreeBSD 2.1R and XFree86 3.1.2 Installation Woes Date: 4 Dec 1995 11:13:25 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <49ul4l$e26@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> References: <49svmt$k7j@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gosset.maths.tcd.ie jkurtz@starbase.neosoft.com (John Kurtz) writes: >2. XFree86 3.1.2 does not want to start up, giving me some error message like: > (goes through startup, and even gets the graphics screen up with the X > cursor, then dies with the following:) > login: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device This is produced by starting "xterm" I'd guess. Tring to do domething to a pseudo-tty. We've had this problem with a 2.1.0-RELEASE kernel running over a nfs booting box with a cut down kernel. I've tried adding options back into the kernel to fix the problem, but have had no luck yet. The only other thing I can think of that it might be related to it is the fact the pty's are nfs mounted. Luckly it doesn't affect us too much as we are running the machines as x-terms and only want xterms to run on our servers. David.