Re: The time has come ...

["Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

--On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 6:36 pm +0100 "Christian Meder"
<meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: 

> On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 06:24:46PM +0100, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
>> > > I'll upload new xfree packages which are based on -8 in an hour or so
..
>> > 
>> > Hmm.
>> > 
>> > They're broken here.
>> > 
>> > xdm causes the kernel to halt (back to PROM prompt - 'program
terminated').
>> 
>> What kernel version? (It's definitely a kernel bug that it ends up at the
PROM 
>> prompt, but we should none the less try and keep xdm from triggering it.)

OK.

After trying in 2.0.35, I realised that I didn't have xfonts-base installed.

So I installed those.  Then, X works flawlessly under 2.0.35 (well, after a
very brief test..).

I switched back to 2.1.125 and the situation is now:

startx as root works OK, but when you end the X-session, the kernel halts
itself.

xdm works OK, but if you kill xdm (/etc/init.d/xdm stop) the kernel commits
suicide :-(

Jules

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