Colin,

--- on 8/19/97 1:29 PM , Colin Wood . wrote:

>> >> typed startx. Screen goes white, then says 'waiting for X server to shut 
>> >> down', and I'm back at the prompt.
>> >
>> >A great help in debugging this would be to do a:
>> >
>> >'startx >& startx.errors'
>> >
>> >and show us the contents of the errors file.  Usually, something will be
>> >output which shows the problem, but it flashes by too fast for you to see
>> 

I did this a few times, here's what I came up with:

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#cat startx.err1

Screen 0 at 0xfe000040, 512 by 342, rowB 64, fbbase 0x7e01040.
Segmentation fault - core dumped

Fatal server error:
no screens found

#cat startx.err2

Screen 0 at 0xfe000040, 512 by 342, rowB 64, fbbase 0x7e01040.
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

#cat startx.err3

Segmentation fault - core dumped
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Both X and xinit dumped, though not the second time. Filesystem's clean, 
but something's hosed; I'll try a reinstall of the Xserver, then 
xbase12...

>> I recall someone else w/ SE/30 needing to set 
>> the internal video from B&W "Grays" to B&W
>> "Colors" (!) I'll give this a shot as well.
>
>Definitely let me know about this one!  This will need to go in the FAQ if
>you can confirm that it is necessary.

Well, I wish it were that simple ;)  This setting has no effect.

thanks,

mark







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