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Hello,

> Now I've used X for a while and I think there's something wrong with
> something else (very clever)...
> - X gives lots of "Bad relocation xxxx" errors during startup (but up
> to now I cannot tell if it has caused any problems)

Hmm, I don't see these errors here, they /did/ happen with older builds
using NetBSD's src/x11 (instead of using XFree's make World ) but should
be gone by now. Did you use the XFree86 stuff from my site or did you
build your own? If you built your own try rebuilding the traditional way
( make World in xsrc/xfree/xc ) to see if the errors go away.

> - When I do "xinit" as a normal user (startx sleeps some minutes, no
> idea why..),

That's odd - you're the 2nd one telling me about this - on my U10 the
Xserver starts up in a couple of seconds, XFCE4 takes a little longer (
especially when I just updated X11 libraries... ) but all in all way
less than a minute from startx to usable desktop.=20
Do you have your hostname and all that in /etc/hosts? The only time I've
seen something like that was on an AIX box where lots of X11 clients
tried to resolve the machine's hostname via DNS which took bloody ages
to time out when there was no internet connection and for some reason
the machine defaulted to try DNS before /etc/hosts. Maybe you should
check your /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf.

> the screen comes up with twm as I have written in
> .xinitrc, but starting xterm from the menu has no effect at all.=20

Is /usr/X11R6/bin in your $PATH ?
I have no idea where twm keeps its menu, I don't use it.=20

> - When I use X as root (which I did because of the previous problem)
> I've experienced a strange crash with xclock. After having typed the
> command, the "skeleton" of the new window appears, but when I click
> to make the content visible, X crashes without any particular hints
> in the log file...
> What I'm doing wrong now? :)

I don't think /you/ did anything wrong. xclock works just fine here, no
trace of any problem. But your Xserver seems to be more than a little
hosed, the module loader errors you mentioned earlier should NOT happen.
Maybe you mixed up different variants of the X11 software?

have fun
Michael

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