re: xserver-xsun broken!
Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get
pivo:~# startx
(using VT number 7)
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
Now, I do have the xfonts-pex installed and the font exists in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (Roman_M.phont) although running mkfontdir
doesnt seem to find it. so that's one problem, but i also seem to be
having the same problem you are with the core devices.
Unfortunately, I dont have an old Xsun binary to fall back on, can you
either tell me where i might find one or give me a little insight to if
you have seen this problem fixed yet?
Thanks alot
Dayton
> Hi,
> Yesterday, I have confidently convert a Sun sparc-solaris to
> sparc-debian. No particular problem, but when I launch startx I found
> that the xserver package isn't installed : in fact it has been
> dselected when I select gpm. No problem, I reinstall xserver-xsun
> which remove gpm. However, startx yields the following error message
>
> SunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: invalid argument
> Fatal server error
> Fail to initialize core devices
>
> Sound familiar, I remove the link /dev/mouse -> gpmdata and reling to
> /dev/sunmouse then relaunch startx: same error ! I purge gpm: same
> error, purge xserver-xsun and reinstall xserver-xsun: same error,
> reboot retart: same error
>
> Panic, going back and reinstall solaris would be too much a hassle.
> Fortunately I remember having a Sun machine running sparc-debian. I
> copy the file Xsun on this machine to this one. It works !
>
> I would like to point out that this other Sun have been upgradded
> several day ago and for some reason the xserver-xsun have been kept
> back (perhaps because of the presence of gpm ?). I also notice that
> adter upgrading my xserver crashed and I have to remove gpm.
> Apparently, this upgrade have nevertheless change the behaviour of the
> X server: it crash in the presence of gpm while before gpm get kill.
> That's no big deal. But I am very upset that at this advance stage (of
> freeze), one still tinkers with a critical and working package like X
> and introduce new bug. Just two days ago? I have reported a bug in the
> new file /etc/Xsession (it no longer loads the Xresources)
>
> Please go back to the xserver-xsun which works
>
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