On Thu, 21 May 1998, henning loeser wrote:

> Sorry it took me a while to get to this again. I had to write some papers 
> on the machine and didn't want to tie it up compiling the system.
> The error I get seems to be reproducable for me and this time I didn't
> delete the .core files :-)
> To the configuration :
> Q700, 20MB Ram, 2MB Video (at 256 greys), MacCon Nubus Ethernetcard, HD.
> 
> After doing a make build again on the 1.3.1 sorces and waiting for about 
> 26 hours I exited from single user and the system seemd to come up fine.
> I could log in from console. Starting the xdm was when the problem 
> occured again. Ken's Xmac68k.OSFA server duped core, gdb gives:
> 
> #(gdb) core Xmac68k.core
> #Core was generated by `Xmac68k'.
> #Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #Cannot access memory at address 0x40a0.
> 
> and the xdm-errors:
> #/usr/libexec/ld.so: warning: libc.so.12.20: minor version >= 25 expected, 
> #using it anyway
> #/dev/grf0: Couldn't get video mode information via ROM driver.
> #        This is not a fatal error.
> #        I gather there is no ROM driver support for this screen...
> #        I will treat this screen as StaticGray or TrueColor.
> #Screen 0 at 0x423ae00, 1152 by 870, 8 bpp, rowB 1152, fbbase 0xf9000000.
> #xdm error (pid 25292): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
> #xdm error (pid 25287): Display :0 cannot be opened
> 
> Reinstalling the base.tgz got everything working again.

Which base.tgz?

You've got a library version mismach above, where one of the programs was
wanting (was linked with) version 12.25 but only got version 12.20.

Look and see what versions of libraries you have around.

Take care,

Bill