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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news
From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86 doesn't start
Message-ID: <1992Dec14.011348.10575@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Keywords: X11,386BSD
Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
References: <1992Dec12.085523.3828@aki.en.open.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:13:48 GMT
Lines: 42

In article <1992Dec12.085523.3828@aki.en.open.de> aki!wegmann (Frank Wegmann) writes:
>I'm posting this for a friend:
>
>I have problems running xfree86. When I try to run 'xinit' or 'X'
>my screen switches to graphics mode, displays some random dots in
>black and white and after a second or two I'll be back in text mode.
>
>Output of xinit >& err was:
>
>XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
>(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
>Configured drivers:
>  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
>      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
>VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
>VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 33 37 41 46 32 38 51 57 65 73 81 91 64 76
>Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

The server is catching a SIGSEGV

>XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
>      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
>
>Trying to start X with 'X' I got the same but an additional line:
>IOT trap (core dumped)

After trapping the SIGSEGV, the server cleans up and then calls abort() which
is producing that message (and the core).

>I've rebuild the kernel with the patches and tested the
>kernel included in the XFree86 package.

Is the server running suid-root?  Can you get a stack trace from the core
with gdb and send the details?

David
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