Roger wrote:
> At 9:12 AM -0800 3/16/98, Colin Wood wrote:
> >Roger wrote:
> >> It looked like X was starting, then something flashed on the screen, too
> >> quick to read, and then the message
> >>
> >> "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)."
> 
> 
> Here is some additional information.
> During the install, while installing the xfonts.tgz file, I got the
> following error.
> 
> <snip>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/lubR18.pcf.gz
> Error on SCSI cmd (), # 2
> Error on SCSI read (), # 5
> Error on SCSI complete (), # 10
> /: bad dir ins 2 at offset 0: mangled entry
> bad dir
> </snip>
> 
> I tried redownloading the fonts.tgz file from ftp.netbsd.org.
> I reinstalled and got the same error.

If I were you, I'd completely blow away the fonts directories and try to
reinstall again, perhaps after you've run 'fsck -fy' on that partition.
Either you've got a damaged filesystem, or else bad blocks on the disk.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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